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Why These Companies Were Hot In 2015

Brett Sappington, director of research for Parks Associates, recently told CNET, “At one point, AOL and Yahoo seemed like they were the Internet."

That was when being a Web portal was the thing to be. Google redesigned the category and convinced users and advertisers to shift from portals to search. As the portal space went cold, Yahoo got hypothermia.  

From the article "Why These Companies Were Hot In 2015" by Christopher Lochhead.

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