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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Equity Interests Issued Or Issuable, Number Of Shares Issued

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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The cash inflow associated with the amount received from the sale of a portion of the company's business, for example a segment, division, branch or other business, during the period.

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The Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - The Company (Details) shares in Millions, $ in Billions	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2021 USD ($) shares	Dec. 31, 2020 segment	Jul. 17, 2020 USD ($)
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Number of reportable segments \| segment		1
Held-for-sale \| Classifieds
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Amount of consideration to be received, subject to adjustments			$ 9.2
Forecast \| Held-for-sale \| Classifieds
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Proceeds from sale of business	$ 2.5
Number of shares to be received from the sale \| shares	540