Closing Down Services

Closing down Geocities

Geocities was a popular web hosting service founded in 1994. At one point it was the 3rd most-browsed site on the World Wide Web. Yahoo! purchased Geocities in 1999. Ten years later Yahoo! closed Geocities, deleting millions of web pages in the process. A great deal of information was certainly lost but many of those sites & pages have been mirrored at the Internet Archive, "OOcities.com", and more.

Closing down Yahoo! 360° beta

Yahoo! 360° was a popular blogging/social networking beta service launched in March 2005 by Yahoo!. On July 13, 2009 Yahoo closed it down.

Closing Down Mash Beta

Yahoo! Mash beta was another social service closed after one year of operation. It never left Beta .

Closing Down Yahoo Photos

Yahoo! Photos was shut down on September 20, 2007 in favor of Flickr

Closing down Yahoo! Tech

Yahoo! Tech is a web site that provides product information and setup advice to users. Yahoo! launched the web site in May 2006. On February 11, 2010 Yahoo announced that it will close down Yahoo! Tech on 11 March. The site thereafter will redirect users to Yahoo!'s technology news section.

Other discontinued services

Other discontinued services include Farechase, My Web, Audio Search, Pets, Live, Kickstart, Briefcase, and Yahoo! for Teachers. For Complete list of closed services see: List of other Yahoo! closed and defunct services

The material is taken from: http://wikipedia.org