Yahoo Plans to shut down Yahoo Search Directory this week

Are you one of those who search stuffs from yahoo directory? Sorry this isn't going to be a good news as Yahoo plans to shut down Yahoo Directory this week. An unceremoniously announcement made in a September blog post entitled "Progress Report: Continued Product Focus." The post said Yahoo would "retire" the directory on Dec. 31, 2014.


 The service that was once the primary way to search for information online before major outburst bust in tech. Yahoo which started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" in 1994. It was essentially a list of websites organized by category that Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo put together in graduate school.
 
All that changed when search came on the scene, and Yahoo Directory's usefulness faded when google surface.  In 1998, Google developed an algorithm for organizing search results by how many other sites were linking to certain Web pages. A few years later, Google became synonymous with searching the Internet.



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