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Yahoo! site down for several hours One of the world's largest Internet portals suffered a world-class outage for several hours on Monday.

By Margaret Kane, ZDNet News UPDATED February 7, 2000 1:44 PM PT

Yahoo! Inc., one of the busiest sites on the Internet, experienced an approximately three-hour outage Monday, leaving Web surfers unable to reach the site.

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is the most-visited site on the Internet after America Online Inc., drawing more than 42 million unique visitors a month, according to research firm Media Metrix.

Observers said the site appeared to encounter problems around 10:30 AM PT.

The site was back in operation by 1:30 PM PT.

Yahoo spokeswoman Shannon Stubo confirmed the outage. She couldn't provide specific times when the problem occurred.

She said the company had not yet identified the source of the problem.

The company said the outage did not appear to affect all parts of the site and that the e-mail service offered on the site continued working.

Yahoo delivers an average 465 million page views every day.

Officials at Keynote Systems, a San Mateo, Calif., firm that measures Internet performance and availability, said the Yahoo! site went down between 10:15 and 10:30 a.m., Pacific time.

Quotes delayed by 20 minutes or more. "We can't tell exactly why they're going down. The problem from the user point of view is a time-out -- the browser just spins and never responds properly," said Dan Todd, director of public services at Keynote.

Todd said the Yahoo! outage was unusual, since the portal site usually perform well in Keynote tests.

"They've been one of the best-performing sites everywhere," he said. "For roughly the last year Yahoo! has been in the top five of performance of these Web sites -- and typically performs at about 97 to 99 percent availability."

Todd said Keynote tests showed that Yahoo!'s problems seemed to be limited to the United States and that performance overseas was only down to about 60 percent availability.

Reuters contributed to this story

-- RAT (eyesopen@watcher.com), February 07, 2000

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portions of Yahoo are apparently still down as of 12:30 HST (2:30PST), specifically on the Reuters news sites, where Tech, Local, Int. are still not working

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), February 07, 2000.

4:52pm CST.....head honcho is supposed to be on Fox News in next few minutes.

-- Kyle (fordtbonly@aol.com), February 07, 2000.

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OT (maybe): Anyone else notice that most of Yahoo has been down for the last couple of hours?

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 07, 2000.

Fox News....no link so far from satellite dish.....haven't learned how yet. Yahoo supposed to be big headline story...waiting....nothing so far....talking about Cisco....prices recovering....blah, blah....still ahead they hope to speak to some Yahoo bigwig...still waiting....If he ever comes on I will paraphrase as best I can...bill and chuck heads talking.....talking heads....cisco again...chuck says communications is where it is all at....good to see ya chuck says bill....now Klintons new bill......oops.....two planes down in CA....what do those hijackers want?...in India?..forgot where......still expecting "didn't catch his name" from Yahoo.....but he is coming up next....well I thought that a half hour ago.....oh well...commercials.....mike hegedas? on now.....he is talking about banner year for shoe bizness.....fashion....harrison trask has come out of nowhere.....sink money asap.....shoes, shoes, shoes.....everyone get in shoes.......put money in shoes....look at all the funny and different shoes.....bill says thank you......still no Yahoo.....but I am sure it will be soon.....Lucent to acquire Ortel....mergers, mergers,....we are told the 'Yahoo guy' is on his way to the studio...hmmmmm....must have gotten picked up by Jerry. I give up.

-- Kyle (fordtbonly@aol.com), February 07, 2000.

Finally, he is on...Jeff Mallett, live from Mountain View, CA......they got hacked. Everything is AOK tho.....hunky dory....green valleys....What Dreams May Come?

-- Kyle (fordtbonly@aol.com), February 07, 2000.

OT2

-- Mikey (mikey @haricot _vert.com), February 07, 2000.