What's up with Yahoo?!

[BearState]

Yahoo's services seem to be in chaos.

Hot Jobs for example, looks like a bloody mess when I call it up.

I can't get to my Yahoo email account either. It keeps timing out.

And a day ago, they put an animated advertisement on their front page that absolutely hogged just about every CPU cycle on my machine.

Then they sent an E-mail asking if I'd seen my new personal Yahoo page.


Anybody got a clue what's go'n down there?


Brian

[Eriksrocks]

HotJobs looks fine to me.

[BearState]

Originally Posted by Eriksrocks

HotJobs looks fine to me.

Gosh, aren't backups wonderful things?!!!

Don't know what happened. They are back to normal once again.

I hope they don't go through more stuff like that. It doesn't reflect well.

Thankfully too, as I really needed to read my email.

Brian

[alemcherry]

Probably an ISP problem or temporary problem. Yahoo is too big a company to mess up their sites

[charlesgan]

when talked about yahoo services...
i love their email service... but dislike their search engine.

for the ads high cpu.. might be caused by your browser and the flash.

[hollenback]

According to a Yahoo developer support group the east cost servers were down. The explanation is at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/y...l/message/1366

[BearState]

Originally Posted by hollenback

According to a Yahoo developer support group the east cost servers were down. The explanation is at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/y...l/message/1366

It might be that the east coast search engine servers caused the problem. But in truth, I could search with Yahoo when it went buggy. That wasn't the problem. The problem was that several elements of presentation on many of their pages went bad. And the thing with that automobile animation ad hogging cpu cycles seemed a bit ... well, somebody should have tested that thing on a staging server before it got live on the front page. Later, they disabled the animation and just presented the static image and all was well. It was a bit of a surprise! And then to have the presentation chaos that followed hard upon the next day! Whew!

Gerry Yang and David Filo might have come close that day to seeing some more controversy comparable to Shark Finning and the time in May 2006 when Image Search showed sexually explicit and graphic content even when SafeSearch was enabled.


Glad things are now back to normal, whatever the cause.

Brian

[anthonysfilmreview]

Anything can happen to anyone. Even Google may once in a while have some unexpected problem.

[BearState]

I like that answer. It's better than trying to sweep it under the carpet.

Have you noticed sometimes in Yahoo Search that when you search for a certain thing, Yahoo will sometimes substitute something else, only barely similar. You retype what you originally put in and search again and it finds it?

That's annoying.