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Just today one of the most highly visited websites in the world, Yahoo crashed and went down sometime around 5:40 p.m. ET.

For more than a substantial amount of time the homepage of Yahoo simply showed a plain text “Server Hangup” message in the browser. However, reports indicate that Yahoo services like Sports, News and Finance appeared to be unaffected.

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. Hmmmm.