Yahoo Announces to Close Yahoo Voices, Yahoo Shine and More....

Yahoo Team officially announces that they are shutting down some yahoo services this month. They had officially written in their blog on 2nd July 2014.

As coming more latest products, some of their products has been discontinued by most of the people. In Later times yahoo voices and yahoo toolbar is used by many users. Gradually yahoo services may not been much interested to users. As a result they had planned to shut some services and focus on existing services like yahoo news, yahoo cricket, etc.

Yahoo schedule to shut services as:

• Newlook Service- 30th April (Already Closed)

• Research Reports- 30th April (Already Closed)

• Yahoo Bookmarks- on may 26th(Already Closed)

• People Search- On 2nd July

• Xobni- On 2nd July

• Yahoo Toolbar on Chrome- By 22nd July

• Yahoo Shine- On July 31st

• Yahoo Voices & Yahoo Contributor Network- On 31st July

By: Prem On Friday, July 04, 2014

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Yahoo to Shut Axis, Alta Vista and other more Services

Yahoo had announced to shut services of Alta Vista, Yahoo Axis, and other yahoo products. Jay Rossiter has posted the information on their blog. Jay said, "For concentrate on more ongoing projects and to sharpen the daily lives, we had taken this step."

Alta Vista

Alta Vista had launched in early 1995, in order to find anything n internet. It is the first full-text web-search application and has become a famous online destinations to users and customers. Several ownership changes has hurt the Alta Vista, and of course Google came along and has became the world's famous search engine.

Yahoo Axis

In fact that Axis is the newer product to shut the service. It has launched in May 2012, for mobile devices which is a combination of Browser, Search, and a mobile product. With a browser plugin, it has been used by Desktop users also. Axis probably do so much, but it also been to shut.

Other Product to Shut by Yahoo is:

• Yahoo Axis (June 28, 2013)
• Yahoo Browser Plugin (June 28, 2013)
• Citizen Sports (June 28, 2013)
• Yahoo Web Player (June 30, 2013)
• Foxy Tunes (July 1, 2013)
• Yahoo RSS Alerts(July 1, 2013)
• Yahoo Neighbors Beta (July 8, 2013)
• Alta Vista (July 8, 2013)
• Yahoo! Stars India (July 25, 2013)
• Yahoo Downloads Beta (Juy 31, 2013)
• Yahoo Local API (Sept 28, 2013)
• Yahoo Term Extraction API (Sept 28, 2013)

By: Prem On Sunday, June 30, 2013

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