A fork of Rural Dictionary
A company who had a long epic fall from grace, involving toolbars and spam and is now owned by Verizon who seem to be trying to buy all the old internet companies before they die
Do you use Yahoo!? No Why? It put a annoying toolbar on my browser and its search is terrible
The dead and horrible quality mail service. Mostly for old people. Also the design looks like crap.
Man: "What's your email?" Man 2: "man@yahoo.com" Man: "We're not friends anymore."
"PULL A YAHOO!" = To create a lot of hype around something--really build it up (like Yahoo! Photos and Yahoo! 360), get large amounts of people interested, even "hooked", then close up shop, runaway, then hide behind legal rhetoric all the while still building themselves up to be hip, new, wonderful, fresh...
Sentence: "Gregory put tons of photos on Yahoo! Photos and a lot of time and energy into "Yahoo! 360. Yahoo shut both down. After moving to other sites, I fear that my new web services might "Pull a Yahoo!" and do the same thing as Yahoo!" "I sure hope Multiply.com don't pull a Yahoo!"
To create a lot of hype around something, get large amounts of people "hooked", then close up shop, runaway, then hide behind legal rhetoric all the while still building themselves up to be hip, new, wonderful, & fresh...
"Gregory put tons of photos on Yahoo! Photos and a lot of time and energy into "Yahoo! 360. Yahoo shut both down. After moving to other sites, I fear that my new web services might "Pull a Yahoo!" and do the same thing as Yahoo!" Sentence: "I sure hope Multiply.com don't pull a Yahoo!"
When ur friend leaves his laptop unattended so you set his browser homepage to Yahoo instead of Google.
When John left to go to the washroom, I gave his internet browser the ol' Yahoo Switcharoo.