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We used to call "super apps" portals. Mistaken valuations of their stickiness generally led to the first cratering of internet company values.



AOL and Yahoo eventually died because there were individual sites that did the individual parts that they had better, and then they became less than the sum of their parts. Similar to how massive industrial conglomerates in America fell apart, or department stores when specialized fashion retailers became a thing.

East Asia is just a lot more friendly to conglomerate structures in general. Korea has Naver and there's Yahoo Japan.




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