I believe it. I love the Yahoo homepage. And when I'm with a group and someone mentioned something obscure... just about everyone mutters - "oh yeah, I saw that on Yahoo."
Keep in mind, these are not a geeky bunch, I'm the only redditor among them. We're talking about people who use their phones for everything and the computer to browse the web or answer an email.
I just went to Yahoo.com. I believe this is my first time. The frontpage articles are "Jennifer Aniston's vacation bikini", "Bizarre Russian beach scene", "Horned sea monster is a mystery", "Forgot something, Lindsay?", and "Tycoons giving wealth away."
Sounds like linkbaity links the average guy would like to click on :) (heck, I might check out Jennifer's vacation bikini myself :) ).
My GF uses Yahoo, they redesigned the webmail recently and she was quite confused (couldn't attach a file, we found that drag n' drop worked, but I didn't find the attachment option).
I don't use Yahoo, but I do like that the site is useful for casual information junkies. There's a very pleasant inundation of news in various media that you don't get from sources like google news or newspaper sites.
I go to Yahoo maybe once a day. I can't read intellectual stuff that makes me think every single time. When I need to read casual stuff, I head to Yahoo and they always satisfy that need.
Keep in mind, these are not a geeky bunch, I'm the only redditor among them. We're talking about people who use their phones for everything and the computer to browse the web or answer an email.