Yahoo To Close Old Product Lines

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Yahoo to close the old product lines

A small piece of Internet history, long overshadowed by giant Google is about to disappear into the sunset.

Yahoo (YHOO-Q16.38-0, 13 -, 78%) to quickly extinguish Altavista, fast search engine, which is popular in 1990, means-ends, and many other products it contains.

The information contained in the social networking site popular Twitter, MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier, an online community of bloggers that Yahoo bought in January 2007, and the sum is more than $ 10 million (U.S.). MyBlogLog is a Yahoo-off products, including personal photo screen webcast and Mr. Marcoullier Yahoo posted online.


The news comes a day after Yahoo announced that its employees began a new round in a series of layoffs that have occurred over the past two years. It plans to cut about 600 jobs, or 4 percent of its workforce.

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Cuts

Some products Yahoo Inc. plans to phase out, according to presentation slides leaking today.

AltaVista

Now-obsolete search engine, a popular day before coverage of Google was cemented. Yahoo acquired when it bought Overture Services Inc., the parent company in 2004 1630000000 dollar (United States) is a cash and shares.

Delicious

A site that helps users organize their favorite sites. del.icio.us Inc. was acquired by Yahoo in December 2005. At that time it had about 300,000 users.

Buzz Yahoo!

A new aggregation site where users can post links to news articles, and prioritize what seems most visible on the page by recommending specific links.

MyBlogLog

Founded by Eric Marcoullier who leaked slide on Twitter Yahoo Thursday. Bloggers social networking site was bought by Yahoo in January 2007 for a reported amount of over $ 10,000,000 (U.S.)

AlltheWeb

Another also-ran in the Google dominates the search engine owned by Yahoo buying Overture in 2004, also owned by AltaVista.

Yahoo! favorites

Another service, organize favorite sites bookmarked links to the user.

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