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How the Mighty Fall? Yahoo's Embarrassing Web Errors

4 pointsby thinkingseriousover 17 years ago
Maybe I'm behind the times, but I still think of Yahoo as one of the Web's great success stories. And, until recently, I also thought of it as setting the standard in Web site operations.

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MuddyMoover 17 years ago
I like this observation: "In other words, JCPenney just lowered the price from $39,990, and Yahoo is just running a little behind?"
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jimbokunover 17 years ago
This is what happens when you take a working e-commerce site written in Lisp and rewrite it in C++.
geebeeover 17 years ago
just this morning, I searched my yahoo email account for an old airline itinerary using their search button.<p>my results page was rendered entirely in spanish. I have no idea what might have caused this bug, but fortunately the buttons are all in the same place. <p>I suppose there's a chance I might have hit some errant button on my keyboard...