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Off-Topic => Off-Topic News Discussion => Topic started by: 7H3 on Sep 27, 2014, 08:09 PM

Title: Yahoo to Retire That Which Started it: Yahoo Directory
Post by: 7H3 on Sep 27, 2014, 08:09 PM
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2469382,00.asp

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We confess; we had no idea the Yahoo Directory was still around. If you'll flash back a decade or so--if not more--you might recall a time when you perused Yahoo's hand-picked, categorical results for sites to visit.
Perhaps you were interested in gardening, so you'd hit up Yahoo's Directory to see just what sites it was recommending you should visit. Maybe you were a time-traveler from the future and just knew that Internet cats would be a huge thing, so you attempted to contribute as many sites as you could to the directory's feline section.
Regardless, the growth of Google basically killed off Yahoo's Directory in spirit. Who needs a human-curated list of websites, after all, when an automated crawler can scan through the raw text of all of these sites to ensure that people are matched up with the most relevant results for their query?


Do you Yahoo?
Title: Re: Yahoo to Retire That Which Started it: Yahoo Directory
Post by: Legend on Sep 28, 2014, 01:08 AM
Yeah I yahoo for email.
Title: Re: Yahoo to Retire That Which Started it: Yahoo Directory
Post by: BasilZero on Sep 28, 2014, 01:40 AM
Havent used yahoo in years and the last time I tried getting on its messenger which was like 5 years ago my anti-virus picked it up as malware ;x.

Lol.

Google ftw ;)
Title: Re: Yahoo to Retire That Which Started it: Yahoo Directory
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 28, 2014, 04:28 AM
I use it for email.  Two of my three emails at least. 
Used to read the front page a lot, not so much anymore. 
Title: Re: Yahoo to Retire That Which Started it: Yahoo Directory
Post by: 7H3 on Sep 28, 2014, 07:36 PM
I have a yahoo email that is really old and still has a 4 character password