Yahoo!, I mean Yahell – The Juggling Act Continues
Written by Nile | Posted in News | Posted on 
23-07-2009 | 
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Tags: blogging, technology, websites
After Yahoo! posted on their corporate blog their acquisition of Xoopit, I am still reeling about them closing GeoCities. This is insane! Not only that, but they failed to even mention ANYWHERE in their corporation blog about the closing.
Literally millions used Yahoo! GeoCities free hosting. October 26, 2009 is the official closing day and yet they redirect their free hostees to other companies? What is with that move? I asked in another blog this mysterious and unanswered question, Yahoo!GeoCities – Why Get Rid of a Good Thing?
It is a move that I am pretty sure that when people hear about Xoopit being assimilated into Yahoo! so people can have photos displayed in their email account. Okay, but no thanks anyway since one of my oldest email addresses I have is a Yahoo! email and it is extremely bulky, in my opinion. Then, there was the fact that Yahoo! had closed Yahoo! Briefcase too, in March 2009 and Yahoo! 360 closed July 13, 2009. Okay, so they closed one, have Flickr, and now Xoopit.
Make up your mind Yahell!
Anyone else confused with Yahoo! and their juggling act?
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It makes no sense to close something people actually use, and obtain something that people may or may not use. I have Yahoo! email accounts, but I use them for specific things (usually as “spam catchers”), so that my real email addresses that people use to contact me don’t get as much mail.
I think Yahoo! is really just trying to keep up with Google – as the two companies seem to spend an awful lot of time acquiring other web companies.
I think they just might be, although it just boggles me on how GeoCities was not bought. That is a lot of data and it is like telling people they should buy their crappy paid hosting or just go elsewhere… like a big middle finger right back at them.
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You know this comes after the new CEO was credited for doing such an awesome job with increasing yahoo's usage and making it more user friendly.
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Not sure why he would. Yahoo was more friendly back in the day. At least I could keep my ire under wraps when Yahell went glitchy in Yahoo! Clubs.
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