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Following 600 layoffs yesterday, Yahoo announced plans to shut down several web sites.
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announced plans to “sunset” eight products and consolidate others. Products to be shut down include MyBlogLog, Yahoo Picks, AltaVista, Yahoo Bookmarks, Yahoo Buzz and Delicious.
I'm really bummed to see Del.icio.us go away. I used that service a lot to store links for future reference.
I won't miss any of those. I wouldn't even miss Yahoo. Does anyone still Yahoo except old timers with Yahoo email accounts? All that Yahoo is known for these days is clogging up Google search results with their "Associated Content" links.
Associated Content - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Scott Rosenberg criticized Associated Content and other companies for publishing content not aimed at human readers, but for the purpose of influencing search engines, and for actually degrading Google search results.
AOL's dumb plan to mimic the universe's worst news site. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine Associated Content stands as a cautionary tale for anyone looking to do news by the numbers. It is a wasteland of bad writing, uninformed commentary, and the sort of comically dull recitation of the news you'd get from a second grader. Oh, and here's one more interesting thing about Associated Content—because its stories are bulging with hot search terms, it gets more visitors than just about every news site online, including washingtonpost.com.
Don't they?
All those Internet companies offering endless services and sites experience failures from time to time. Compared to AOL/Netscape Yahoo is still pretty good
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I used that service a lot to store links for future reference.
Watch the Yahoo logo the first time the page loads...
