Yahoo ends an era by officially announcing that Yahoo directory is shutting by the end of this year. With this Yahoo actually announce the closure of its three products: Yahoo Directory, Qwiki and Education.
Yahoo SVP, Cloud Platform Group, Jay Rositer said in a blog post, “At Yahoo, focus is an important part of accomplishing our mission: to make the world’s daily habits more entertaining and inspiring. To achieve this focus, we have sunset more than 60 products and services over the past two years, and redirected those resources toward products that our users care most about and are aligned with our vision. With even more smart, innovative Yahoos focused on our core products – search, communications, digital magazines, and video – we can deliver the best for our users.”
Here’s what he said about Yahoo Directory specifically: “Yahoo was started nearly 20 years ago as a directory of websites that helped users explore the Internet. While we are still committed to connecting users with the information they’re passionate about, our business has evolved and at the end of 2014 (December 31), we will retire the Yahoo Directory. Advertisers will be upgraded to a new service; more details to be communicated directly.”
While it’s supposed to be retired at the end of the year, a lot of people (myself included) are having trouble accessing it as of the time of this writing.
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