Comments on: Yahoo.ie Launches 2 Years Later, And Still Not Irish

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:31:09 +0000

Yahoo seem to simply view us here in Ireland as an appendix to the UK. A bit of a bother. They have a site which I use from time to time called Yahoo Answers and guess what flag they have representing Ireland? yep, the Union Jack. If you go to it and scroll down to the end of the page you’ll see numerous flags – no Irish flag of course, that would be too difficult for Yahoo. All they’d need to do is put up an Irish flag and have it redirect to YA UK & Ireland. It’s a disgrace and an insult.

Further to that it is what they call a “violation” to use the Irish language on the site – even though it covers both Ireland and the UK. Irish people are being told they can only use the English language and cannot use the first official language of Ireland. Questions asked in Irish can be reported and the “guilty” party then receives a violation notice, has the question deleted and faces having their account suspended. It borders on racism if you ask me.

By: Tom Doyle

Tom Doyle — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:43:07 +0000

Not surprising from Yahoo! really though is it.

It’s taken them 10 years to get from offering “Ireland only” results, that never worked very well to a dedicted Irish page. The only difference I can see is the logo and an attempt at providing Irish content. Hardly something to be proud of!

If I was Dave from Yahoo!, I’d be very disappointed at the progress that has been made in those 10 years – even the council would do more in 10 years

By: Baz

Baz — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:51:57 +0000

Two points:
- on finance it is hard enough to get decent and timely Irish financial data from ANY source, even the stock exchange themselves, also most Irish companies list in London. None of the other finance portal carry irish company data either to any decent extent.
- on dating, who would want to date Irish people anyway, maybe Yahoo are trying to raise the standards