Yahoo Closing another service: Geocites, Why?
11:15 AM | View Comments | Deadpool, Geocities, Internet, Web, Web Hosting, Yahoo
Recently Yahoo shutdown its very Old an online file sharing service "Yahoo Briefcase" which was providing 30 MB of web storage. The Idea was good but it never come with new upgrading in Storage or features. after that JumpCut join the Que which was a media sharing site where user can upload media & create,remix movies & publish them or share with the world & now another service is joining the band wagon. A very old yahoo hosting service GeoCity will going to dead pool later this year. Right now no new account sign ups are accepted by the site. Existing customers accounts are still active, including free & plus.
Company says "After careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this year. We'll share more details this summer" According to Company F&Q, customer can move to other service provider like Yahoo Web Hosting which provides more tools and space or other Hosting Providers.
Geocity is a very old service provider in web Hosting but of course company will now clearly focus its eye on their another Hosting service "Yahoo Web Hosting" which is growing day by day but it's also interesting that how Yahoo shuts down service after service. After dropping the ad revenue numbers , for Company its crucially to focus in a business which provides a good source of income.
