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Yahoo’s original guide to the web - Directory – to close by end of year and advertisers to be 'upgraded'

on Sep 28, 2014 | 0 comments

By Jessica Davies

Yahoo Directory, the company’s first ever guide to the web, created to help people navigate online more easily, is to close by the end of the year.

The company has revealed its plans to close Directory, which has been going for two decades, along with its Education product, designed to connect users with education providers and content.

It will also shut down the Qwiki app, which automatically created short movies based on events from a user’s camera roll. The Qwiki team will be retained by Yahoo to work on other products.

Yahoo’s senior vice president of the Cloud Platform Group, Jay Rossiter, said Read full story ›

Source: The Drum