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Yahoo Down
Yahoo -– one of the most highly trafficked websites in the world –- was down at 5:40 p.m. ET and returned back online at 6:10 p.m. ET.
The homepage of Yahoo was simply showing a plain text “Server Hangup” message in the browser. However, Yahoo verticals like Sports (sports), News (news) and Finance appeared to be working just fine.
While almost certainly unrelated (but an amusing coincidence), the downtime comes hours after Google posted massive earnings and less than a day since new rumors surfaced that AOL and a number of private equity firms may be putting together a plan to swoop in and acquire the languishing Yahoo.
Let us know what you think? Did you notice it was down?
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