Yahoo closes another service - Yahoo Buzz



    In an effort to "optimize costs", Yahoo Inc. is closing down some of its very well-known services. Perhaps the most buzz was caused by the news of the closure of Delicious, which Yahoo declared unprofitable and was going to either close the resource altogether or sell it at least at a reasonable price. Services such as MyBlogLog and AllTheWeb were also closed. Now it’s the turn of Yahoo Buzz - Yahoo announced the closure of the project with little news on its website. In the same message, management claimed that closing the service "will help focus on new developments and major projects."

    It is worth noting that since the opening in 2008, this service has managed to become quite popular, but, of course, not as popular as the same Digg (which also has significant problems with payback, and which is gradually losing people from its team). True, for a short time, Yahoo Buzz had even more visitors in the US than Digg. But such services and social networks as Twitter, Facebook have led to a drop in the popularity of social bookmarking services and news aggregators.

    Some experts believe that the decline in popularity of Yahoo Buzz is caused by a certain “complexity” of the structure of this aggregator. There is still an opinion that the service was not actively developed, remaining in place while other services and companies were constantly improving. Be that as it may, and Yahoo has already announced the closure of the service, and guessing about the reasons that led to this may be useful for analyzing the situation, but Yahoo Buzz can not be returned.

    By the way, Yahoo has not represented much innovation in the last few years. Yes, the company has significant problems, but the current head of Yahoo, Carol Bartz, tries to solve most of the problems with “cost optimization”, which means closing offices, downsizing, closing or selling some services. It remains to be hoped that the Yahoo team is still preparing something interesting, since there is such a "concentration on current Yahoo projects."

    Via Mashable

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