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As part of an ongoing effort to streamline and focus its business, Yahoo today announced ( http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/98474044364/progress-report-continued-product-focus ) that it was retiring its namesake product at the end of the year.
In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo, graduate students at Stanford University, created a hierarchical directory of websites, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." In March of that year, they gave it the name "Yahoo!," for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."
In the early days of the Web, these categorized, human-curated Web listings were all the rage. Search engines existed, but rapidly became notorious for their poor result quality. On a Web that was substantially smaller than the one we enjoy today, directories were a useful alternative way of finding sites of interest.
(Score: 1) by pnkwarhall on Saturday September 27 2014, @08:48PM
crap at the top, crap down the left, crap down the right, and a nested banner of crap in the center
You don't need to visit yahoo.com -- you just summed it up!
Also, in reference to what you said, I have zero positives about Yahoo. The main reason I want it to die is so another search engine can come and fill the "Big Three" vacuum.
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