Yes you can.

WordPress can be your base or pilot to begin .

But soon to scale the website you will be making lot of changes in the codes .

WordPress will not be able to support you .

You may need to scale up the wordpress , or create new custom framework for scalability .

but it’s good place to start.

Also Yahoo , is not mere website , it has search engines, mail servers. new brodcasting/feeds , CMS, lot of high traffic puling solutions.

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