# Yahoo! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 19, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378 "2000-12-19T18:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@Anake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anake)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378/1 "2000-12-19T18:00:33Z")
I’ve heard, from a friend (isn’t this always how it starts with could be urban legends?) that Yahoo! is going to close down because it is going bankrupt. Is this true? Funny as it sounds, much of my net life is connected through Yahoo (e-mail, IM, clubs, dozesns and dozens of bookmarks which will take me a loooong time to transfer somewhere else). ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378/2 "2000-12-19T18:48:57Z")
Highly unlikely. Yahoo! actually makes money! They have earnings! They aren’t just a big cash sucking machine. That doesn’t make them invincible, but it should mean they’re less likely to go under than a company like Amazon which has never made a dime. ---
**Author:** ![Anake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@Anake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anake)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378/3 "2000-12-19T21:32:01Z")
See, that’s what I thought. And my friend who told me is pretty Internet illiterate, in that she’ll believe anything someone tells her. ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378/4 "2000-12-19T21:53:09Z")
I believe Yahoo!'s stock is down a bit (in the general dot-com purge), but, as **smackfu** pointed out, Yahoo! actually does make money. The former is probably the source of your friend’s confusion. ---
**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378/5 "2000-12-19T22:10:58Z")
[hijack]So Amazon really doesn’t make money? How does it stay in business?[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378/6 "2000-12-19T22:43:51Z")
Re Amazon: They lose money on every sale, but they plan on making it up on volume. Basically. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378/7 "2000-12-19T23:39:21Z")
You don’t have to make money to stay in business…you just have to have people give you more money. As for Yahoo, I heard they weren’t doing so hot. ---
**Author:** ![Fat\_Charlie\_the\_Archangel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ea924/32.png) [@Fat\_Charlie\_the\_Archangel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat_Charlie_the_Archangel)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378/8 "2000-12-20T01:45:41Z")
I heard the same thing about [Priceline.com](http://Priceline.com) and wondered “Then why do they keep advertising?” They still have Bowl games to sponsor! ---
**Author:** ![peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peace)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378/9 "2000-12-20T04:32:30Z")
## Anake, keep your fingers crossed. Yahho! is profitable, which does not mean that AOL or somebody else won’t eat it one day. If that happens, they may or may not reorganize old Yahoo! What do you mean by Yahoo! bookmarks? My browser keeps my Bookmarks/Favorites, I have no “bookmark” icon in Yahoo!. Besides, anything, including bookmarks, can be copied with one click. It ain’t loooooooooong. Peace. ---
**Author:** ![Arjuna34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378/10 "2000-12-20T05:06:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mongrel\_8 \* > \*\*[hijack]So Amazon really doesn’t make money? How does it stay in business?[/hijack] \*\* Lots of investors pumping money into it. Here’s an [article](http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2000/10/24/technology/earns_amazon/index.htm) about it from CNN. They expect to start making money sometime in 2001. [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) is being watched closely by many [dot.com](http://dot.com) investors- if any internet company can operate with huge losses at first, then turn it around (which is the model for virtually every startup), then [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) can. If they eventually go under, a lot of [dot.com](http://dot.com) investors will go away (even more than they already have). Arjuna34 ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo/46378/11 "2000-12-21T00:55:38Z")
You guys should do your homework. At: [http://quote.netscape.com/chart/Quote.tibco?view=chart&symbols=YHOO](http://quote.netscape.com/chart/Quote.tibco?view=chart&symbols=YHOO) You can see that Yahoo had a high of about 240 & is now around 36. ain’t that freaky? That’s nothing, you should see how far stocks fell today, Wed.