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A hack to Yahoo’s shrunken reputation — The New Yorker

By TechTaffy Desk

Vauhini Vara, the former business editor of newyorker.com, calls Yahoo the ‘Britney Spears of the Internet,’ and wonders whether current Yahoo users and potential future ones will decide that the downsides of using Yahoo have come to outweigh any benefits. You can find the article here.

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