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Yahoo closing Geocities free web hosting services 2 Years, 6 Months ago
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Yahoo is closing Geocities services. Ok, financial crisis is really taking its toll on these service giants. I have a geocities account since back in 1998. Its sad to see its departure after great providers like NBC Xoom, Lycos Angelfire makes its departure and now its Yahoo's Geocities. Rceived this in my yahoo inbox account.
Dear Yahoo! Singapore GeoCities customer,
We're writing to let you know that Yahoo! Singapore GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009.
We have enjoyed hosting web sites created by Yahoo! users all over the world, and we're proud of the community you've built. However, we have decided to focus on helping our customers explore and build relationships online in other ways.
On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files.
What You Need to Do
If you're no longer using your web site, you don't need to do a thing, but if you'd like to move your web site, or save the images and other files you've posted online, you need to act now by downloading your files to your own computer.
To quickly download your published files and images, visit your GeoCities web site, right-click on each page, and choose Save Page As... from the menu that appears. Choose a location on your computer to save your files, then click OK or Save to save the HTML and images associated with your page. Learn more about downloading your files.
With your pages and images saved offline, you can re-create your site with any hosting provider you like.
Please be aware that after October 26, your GeoCities files will be deleted from our servers, and will not be recoverable. If you'd like to save your files, you must download them now.
Another Way to Connect Online
As a Yahoo! customer, you can now use your Yahoo! profile as a central point to manage your identity, activities, and interests across Yahoo! and make it easy to connect and share with the people who matter to you most.
You can get started anytime by adding your picture and other personal details, then invite friends and family to connect — even start your own blog. You'll be able to follow the online activities of your connections across Yahoo!.
Setting up your profile is easy, and it's free! Visit your profile now.
Don't Wait
We encourage you to save your files now. If you need assistance, please visit the help centre.
We want to thank you for being a GeoCities customer, and hope you continue to enjoy our other Yahoo! Singapore services.
Best regards,
The Yahoo! Singapore GeoCities team
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Last Edit: 2009/08/02 12:55 By admin.
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Re: Yahoo closing Geocities free web hosting services 2 Years, 6 Months ago
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Yahoo seems to be closing a lot of things o_O Previously closed the Yahoo Auctions too.. and it was a gd service. Lots of ppl were using it at tht time.
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Re: Yahoo closing Geocities free web hosting services 2 Years, 6 Months ago
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Maybe here is the reason why they closed down alot of their services. Microsoft has clinched a deal with Yahoo to buy out Yahoo's search. Bing search engine will be replacing Yahoo as default search. And Microsoft, why the word "Bing" ? Are you shifting interest towards China now ?
News ticker at Yahoo on the Yahoo - Microsoft deal
Source: finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/29...ft-Deal-Finally-Done
Last February, Microsoft offered to buy all of Yahoo for $40 billion. Last summer, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo's search business for $1 billion.
A couple of months ago, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said it would take "a boatload" of money to get her to sell Yahoo's search business to Microsoft. Two weeks ago, a report suggested that the finally-impending deal price tag would be "several billion."
And now the deal is done, says Kara Swisher. And we know the actual price:
Zero.
As Michael Learmonth reported two days ago, the years-in-the-making Microsoft-Yahoo search deal will just be a revenue-share.
From Yahoo's perspective, it had better be one whopping huge revenue-share. Or Jerry Yang won't be the only Yahoo who will have lost face and credibility over this thing.
Details to be announced within 24 hours, says Kara. We're on the edge of our seats.
UPDATE: AdAge's Michael Learmonth has a lot more interesting details. The more we learn, the worse it sounds.
Bing will become the default search engine on Yahoo, creating a search player with close to 30% market share of search queries, compared with Google's 65%, according to ComScore data.
One of the most interesting wrinkles involves who takes ownership of search sales: Yahoo is likely to take on exclusive representation of Bing inventory to eliminate channel conflict and complexity for advertisers, but not before both sides unwind the thousands of advertiser relationships and proprietary systems through which many large advertisers buy search ads. Microsoft's AdCenter is expected to be the sales-technology platform.
It's an incredibly complex task, and individuals close to both sides say they have no reason to rush that aspect, especially because they expect some antitrust scrutiny from the Department of Justice, which could determine how that part of the deal is ultimately structured.
The deal will take Yahoo out of the search-technology business so it can focus on media, marketing services and sales. Microsoft, especially if it can cede search sales duties to Yahoo, becomes more of a technology and infrastructure company, its disciplines better aligned with its strengths. (It would still, however, have a massive global display-ad sales business.)
In return, Yahoo will retain the ability to sell search and have access to an even bigger pool of search data that it can use to target users with display ads.
Executives on both sides agree that the optimal structure for the deal would be to have one point of contact selling search inventory, but that will require restructuring vast departments with multiple heads at both Microsoft and Yahoo, which could take time.
In addition, Microsoft in particular is very concerned about the Department of Justice's reaction to the deal and they may seek its blessing, much like Google attempted to do last year before it went forward with its proposed search deal with Yahoo. Unlike that Google-Yahoo deal, this Microsoft-Yahoo one appears to have broad support from advertisers, which have long argued that the market needs a second strong search player to foster competition.
Microsoft executives are said to be concerned that behind-the-scenes lobbying by Google will sway regulators and could delay implementation of the deal for months. The irony here is that Microsoft was the main force lobbying against Google's attempt to do a search joint venture with Yahoo, as well as the force organizing advertiser opposition to the pact.
Read Michael's full article here >
"Complex" doesn't even begin to describe this. Combine that with months of lobbying and anti-trust scrutiny, and you have the potential for six months of purgatory--followed by a management nightmare. Hate to say it, but this is shaping up to be a disaster. |
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Re: Yahoo closing Geocities free web hosting services 2 Years, 6 Months ago
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sad lah. my very first website created was on geocities! like when i was 14 or something. wonder if i still can find it. hmm..
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