CNET

Yahoo Directory -- once the firm's cornerstone -- to shut down

The service will shut down on December 31 -- just one of more than 60 products that the company has discontinued over the past two years. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on ...
The Verge

Yahoo Directory, once the center of a web empire, will shut down at year’s end

Yahoo Directory, a site that was once the center of Yahoo’s internet dynasty, is being shut down at the end of the year. However, unless you’ve been using the internet for a couple of decades, you’ve ...
Search Engine Land

The Yahoo Directory — Once The Internet’s Most Important Search Engine — Is To Close

For some, it may seem like there has always been Google, and it’s always been the main way people have found things on the web. But before Google, there was the Yahoo Directory and its hand-compiled ...
Search Engine Land

Yahoo Directory Closes, Five Days Early

The core service that launched Yahoo as an internet company -- the Yahoo Directory -- finally closes 20 years after it began. The Yahoo Directory, the core part of how Yahoo itself began in 1994, ...