Jumat, 24 April 2009

Yahoo stops GeoCities services

Yahoo decided to close GeoCities, a free personal web hosting, by the end of 2009. Yahoo also decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts. Meanwhile, existing GeoCities accounts can still continue their personal web site and GeoCities services until the end of year 2009.


By June 1997, GeoCities was the fifth most popular site on the Web. Yahoo, which previously invested on Geocities, afterward purchase it on January 1999 for $3.57 billion and taking control on May 28, 1999. Yahoo acquired more than $4 billion for 10 years from Geocities.

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