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Yahoo has killed their "Directory" - freeradical - 03-05-2015
It used to be what Yahoo was known for. Human reviewed websites.
Now dir.yahoo.com redirects to business.yahoo.com, which completely blows monkey chunks.
I now have no reason to ever visit their site.
Re: Yahoo has killed their "Directory" - Acer - 03-05-2015
We'll always have dmoz.
Re: Yahoo has killed their "Directory" - hal - 03-05-2015
wow!
I still remember WAY back before www advertising some CNBC type show had a guy on talking about the future of the internet and how a company like yahoo might generate money. He put up the Yahoo directory page and said, 'Now imagine advertising in this space over here and perhaps over here too.'
I immediately 'got it' and knew that it wouldn't be long before advertising was EVERYWHERE on the web.
I haven't used the directory in a very long time, but it makes me a little sad to know that it's gone now. It was one of the first landmarks of the internet age.
Re: Yahoo has killed their "Directory" - deckeda - 03-05-2015
Thought the Directory was gone a long time ago. It was the original search engine listing, wasn't it? (Apart from closed networks like CompuServe/AOL.)
Re: Yahoo has killed their "Directory" - hal - 03-05-2015
No, there was a 'flavor of the month' searches for a while - so easy to forget now. Alta Vista and Excite were older - I'm sure there were others that didn't last long enough to remember.
Re: Yahoo has killed their "Directory" - raz - 03-06-2015
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