Why does Yahoo always shut down their good programs, buy up smaller property just to throw it all away again?
How important is Yahoo! Answers to you? Seems they even don’t care about their own things they make, weird?
Yahoo spent several million dollars about 10 years ago to buy Geocities. It was a smart move. Why? Because folks like me "cut our teeth" at html coding when we opened a free Geocities account. Eventually I wanted to do more than Geocities could offer, so I signed-up for a Yahoo Small Business webhosting account, and now I pay a fee of about a month to Yahoo for hosting my website. Smart move huh? Give people a taste of what they want and they will pay for the real thing. So what did Yahoo do to screw things up? They closed Geocities! Nevermind that it was fueling paying customers to their webhosting business. They just don’t care!
Ok, so next up. Yahoo used to have a service called Yahoo Briefcase. It was a means of storing files and data online, so you could access it anywhere else; like saving some word documents and spreadsheets to Yahoo Briefcase at work and later accessing the info at home so you could work at home on the weekend. Nice eh? Certainly. But, of course, Yahoo decided to close it down. What did I do? I did a Yahoo search for a similar service and found one. For the first time, I opened a free MSN account so that I could use their MSN Skydrive Live service. It’s great! The only thing is…why would Yahoo try to make customers like me flee their services and go to a competitor?
Finally there is Yahoo 360. Now you might think that it was just another MySpace clone. But let me tell you, I was actually using it to connect (network) with people I didn’t know, but shared a common interest in professional topics. It was probably the easiest way to make such contacts - since MySpace is geared toward teenagers that simply wish to gossip…and FaceBook is made for people that generally already know one another or are friends of friends. So, Yahoo 360 was a means to connect to others that may share your interests, such as law, auto repair, stamp and coin collecting, martial arts, or whatever. Where is Yahoo 360 today? It’s gone! Yahoo management decided to remove it since it was perhaps too useful.
Anyone here remember Yahoo Classifieds? I do. It was more popular than Craigslist at one point. Only Yahoo shut it down. We don’t want Yahoo to be too successful do we?
(from a member on the forum)
Personal Note: If this place is so great along side the rest of Yahoo stuff, then why everytime it gets good they shut it down? If its free and you are the rat, what did the professor learn then?)
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I had a Geocities account back when Yahoo took over. The original TOS provided by Yahoo for the turnover required Geocities members to accept their TOS changes to even access their account to delete their accounts. These changes basically said Yahoo owned everything on Geocities. Now mind you, it could have been a wording error. After a lot of complaints, it was changed, and Geocities moved on under Yahoo control. That appears to be a major Yahoo thing. I realized Yahoo claimed some type of copyright on chat. I stopped posting poetry. (I remember more of people complaining then the actual TOS changes.)
I would guess complications, like being unable to purchase the copyrights of everything posted on Geocities, could make the project less appealing. Then there are the problems of policing free sites for illegal content. I have found http://www.webs.com is good. Wonderful free options. I wouldn’t post anything you want to keep copyrights on cause it doesn’t release claim on your material after you deleted it and your account.
I never used Yahoo Briefcase. I remember getting an email saying mine would be deleted. I don’t remember opening it. It had copies of my attachments in it.
Yahoo 360 was nice in some ways. I stopped using it after while. I remember having posted an adult story for a friend of mine. Someone, not on my friends’ list, gained access to my story and was trying to talk to me about it.
Yahoo has replaced it with a different type of blog set up. I stumbled on it. I think I posted something. Check your Yahoo profile for messenger/chat.
Have you seen Yahoo Chat recently? Adults only, but that’s not enforceable. Twice the bots then people, even with a anti-bot sign in. The sign-in option security is often hard to see and makes it difficult for real people to get in. Then a lot of the people on are not interested in the chat room topics. Lots of jerks. The science rooms rarely have people. The Regional Rooms make it difficult to tell people from bots because of the level of "mature" comments being made; its a meat market. People in the gaming room get away with requesting lolitta and incest RP. Fun place. (Rare times I find people worth talking to and will risk the idiots.)
I can only imagine the service changes or removal are based on money. The days of browser chat and HTML help rooms have gone to meat market central and mandatory downloads to chat.
one way to get rid of competition by simply buying it off.