Farewell Yahoo Directory: A Closer Look Before Saying Goodbye

Yahoo SVP, Cloud Platform Group, Jay Rositer said in his recent 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.”

Yahoo announced the closure of their three products:  Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Education and Qwiki

It was nearly 20 years ago when Yahoo Directory was made as a digital phone book of websites that aid netizens in exploring the internet, and now it will ring our new year by killing its web directory. Thousand of websites were being stored by topic and location that could be explored by subject area where people can easily search and retrieve records and this coming December 31, 2014 will officially shutdown.

In its heyday, Yahoo Directory was a great help in creating backlink to your website. It is one of the first site that should not be ignored and top of the priority.  Not only of having a high Page Rank but also it has millions of traffic and considered to be an Authority Site.  SEO specialist are dying and making full effort to make their website listed in a correct category.  Even in my SEO tools that I am using, Yahoo Directory is always on the top list. And now, is will be gone soon.

Yahoo Education is another Yahoo Products that will eventually shutdown. A site of connecting people to school and degree providers will be closing effective next Tuesday (September 30, 2014).  The reason why they are also closing this is they see that there are alternative online resources that are available for internet users.

The Yahoo Qwiki.  This coming November 1, 2014 a movie-making app will be shuttered. It was only a year (July, 2013) since Qwiki was deployed for online users that helped users to automatically create short movies based on events from user’s camera roll. If you never tried it, better visit this website before it’s too late:  http://www.qwiki.com/download_videos

In 2010, Yahoo publicized that they will never close this directory, but thing changed now.  Internet is evolving so as the users. There are more than 60 products and services have shut down for the past two years.