# What the Hell is Yahoo! Guesthouse?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-yahoo-guesthouse/641035>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 14, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-yahoo-guesthouse/641035 "2012-11-14T22:15:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-yahoo-guesthouse/641035/1 "2012-11-14T22:15:44Z")

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I wanted to see about the US-Russia soccer friendly, and on [this page](http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/), I clicked on the link that reads “[Michael Bradley scores on an excellent volley](https://gh.bouncer.login.yahoo.com/login?remip=75.70.153.44&redirect_reason=YBY_MISSING&dso_version=2.8.1&url=http://us.sports.pdprev.global.media.yahoo.com%2fblogs%2fsoccer-dirty-tackle%2fmichael-bradley-scores-excellent-volley-u-unlikely-draw-171408308--sow.html)” and it takes me to a page I’ve never seen before called “Yahoo! Guesthouse” where you are prompted to enter a username and a passphrase, whatever that is.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-yahoo-guesthouse/641035/2 "2012-11-14T22:24:25Z")

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[Yahoo! Guesthouse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Guesthouse).

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**Author:** ![Blakeyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blakeyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blakeyrat)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-yahoo-guesthouse/641035/3 "2012-11-14T22:30:01Z")

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To answer the unspoken question: someone at Yahoo! screwed-up the link, and it goes to the wrong URL. The URL is on Yahoo!'s internal management tool, which is why you received a username/password prompt when you followed it.