Does Yahoo get any Financial gain from all the bots in chat??
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I don't believe so, that is a good question though... \n\n I believe they recieve publicity, and if the bots are advertising bots, then maybe so. It is possible that the company has been payed to have the bot advertize, luckily, I have not ran into any of these bots lately. \n\n Sorry I could not answer more detailed, I looked and could not find much on bots, I do know for sure though that it is very likely they get a small amount, if any for the bots.
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You gave Yahoo money??............You must be mad.
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i think i saw yahoo had a promotion going on, maybe with pepsi or something? \n\n\ngoogle it
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yahoo answer and chat rooms
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it s already been over 10 cents in the last year, go to yahoo and look at the company's profile.  profits are up so that is good but it is still an pink sheet so watch out
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can you really win something from yahoo????
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It is unfortunate.  Yahoo is working on controlling them through reporting.\n\nThis is how bots work.  These people are paid well to do this.  A person creates a program to be able to function in a chat room and runs down the list of chatters and sends them a message hoping to get them into their site.  These programs are sophisticated enough to create multiple anonymous accounts that Yahoo finds difficult to monitor.\n\nIn the future, to prevent these from happening, Yahoo can create email verification or "characters in image" verification to slow these down, however the people who use bots will eventually create technology that surpasses that.\n\nI do not work for Yahoo, but I am confident that Yahoo is tackling these issues daily and trying to find ways to make the Internet a better experience for its users.\n\nI used to have AOL and Netzero.  SBC Yahoo has been the best provider for me and they seem to take bots and spam more seriously than other providers.
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(I have to shout for this - sorry)\n\nSINCE 4 OUT OF 5 OF YOUR LAST "YAHOO ANSWERS" QUESTIONS MENTION THIS WEBSITE, AND 2 OF THEM ARE DUPLICATES, ITS OBVIOUS THIS IS SPAM\n\nSPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM\n\nSO ZERO - I WOULD INVEST ZERO.\n\n(all figures based on the time of this writing).\n\n\nNow don't get me wrong, it might be a good idea, but they way you are advertising it, brakes social rules of etiquitte. You trying to teach the kids that?????  I hope NOT!
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As far as i know all the chat rooms are filled with bots...it requires a lot of patience to catch a real person..
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yahoo has pretty good chat sites . i found the best sites on aol but got tired of paying all that money
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1st quarter report SEC filing of Yahoo\nhttp://biz.yahoo.com/e/060505/yhoo10-q.html\n\nRevenues:\nOur revenues increased 34 percent year over year to $1.6 billion, with unique users up 8 percent year over year (or up 27 percent excluding Yahoo! China as of March 31, 2005), fee paying users up 49 percent year over year, and page views up 18 percent (or up 24 percent excluding Yahoo! China as of March 31, 2005).\n\nYahoo's income statement http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=YHOO&annual\nBalance sheet http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=YHOO&annual\nCash flow http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=YHOO&annual
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I totally agree not only do chat rooms have people trying to make money but there is also dangerous people in the chat rooms . I'm now in home school and there isn't a lot of people in my neighborhood to talk to. It's a very quiet area . why you ask? oh and do you have instant messenger if so you could problem e-mail me at rock.star53 or IM me looking forward bye.
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I do not think so, Yahoo is better in audio and video chat, even better than MSN, besides the well known services in the site, i think that Yahoo community is still growning, and we have to wait for more innovations!
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Could be. Yahoo was formed for insider trading on this potentiality. RICO statute might apply.
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They should Clorox yahoo answers and get rid of the pervs lol. You should try their company website and look at forecasts and press releases. Also, investing info could be a good indicator.
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Yahoo chat used to be, but women stopped doing that lately, and too many bots are there.  When I told people of the ones left doing it, they didn't believe me--they thought I was advertising something.
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In a chat room you can have a virus get on your computer if you click on anything. Most chat rooms nowadays (at least on Yahoo) are nothing but bots foisting porn sites, not really worth it.\nIronically Yahoo was OK when there were user rooms and groups of online friends could actually chat. Because of a big minor-related bust the user rooms got shut down.