As a quick look at Alexa would point out, 50% of pages on yahoo are on mail.yahoo.com. 90% or more of those pages are refreshes to see messgages or even your inbox because of how their mail reader system works.
Compare that to the G-mail system (only 6% of their pages by Alexa's count link) that's smart enough to allow you to check all your mail without a page refresh something like Alexa will pick up. That's where so many of Yahoo's page views come from: a dumb mail system.
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As a quick look at Alexa would point out, 50% of pages on yahoo are on mail.yahoo.com. 90% or more of those pages are refreshes to see messgages or even your inbox because of how their mail reader system works.
Compare that to the G-mail system (only 6% of their pages by Alexa's count link) that's smart enough to allow you to check all your mail without a page refresh something like Alexa will pick up. That's where so many of Yahoo's page views come from: a dumb mail system.
No wonder I couldn't get through to /. through the rss.
I actually had to go directly to the front page for the second time in my life.