It seems that many browsers detect that the site does serve an HTTPS version and upgrades the connection, though the certificate is invalid.

Unless the website is supposed to do something more that I’m simply not seeing myself, it appears to simply embed this one YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9npOp9WhWM

It’s interesting. I was just about to remark on how they are owned by Verizon, but this is no longer the case as of 2021. They are now apparently 90% owned by some private equity company called Apollo Global Management.

The article in question is decent because Yahoo displays news articles from dedicated news organizations in the same way as MSN.com. In this case, the article is written by AFP (Agence France-Presse).

My favorite aspect is the button that says “Add Yahoo on Google.” This would be an absolutely insane phrase in 2006.