Comments on: Yahoo to shut down Geocities

By: Tomas

Tomas — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:28:29 +0000

It very sad story. i have a lot of website on that.

By: Get a flat stomach | Swagata

Get a flat stomach | Swagata — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:15:33 +0000

Vinny, you have very smartly and effectively brought out the reasons leading to the closing down of Geocites – infact you have touched the right nerve and diagonised the disease ailing Geocities. I’ve checked Yola and I must say that its really great. I’m definitely going to start my next niche site at Yola, you’ll have really great features available at the most decent prices, whats more helpful then getting free hosting. I’ve also noted that you’ll have removed all factors that plagued geocities. I think I’m amazed is to think that why did Yahoo close Geocities when they could have shifted to your model.

By: Voice Deepening

Voice Deepening — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:14:34 +0000

I didn’t even know that Geocities still existed. I remember it being around many years ago, way back when Yahoo dominated the Search Engine Wars. Not even sure why they held on to it for so long…

By: NFL Streaming Fan

NFL Streaming Fan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:38:19 +0000

Maybe they realize that the should be making money than giving free service like.

By: jacyle

jacyle — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:40:08 +0000

I’m surprised it took this long. Also, SYNTHASITE is a bad bet. The net is moving towards SOCIAL NETWORKED user content. We’re past the user content phase. It’s all about virally spreading that content. Synthasite’s model is stationary.
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By: Icon PageRank

Icon PageRank — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:05:00 +0000

Interesting post, I didn’t know Geocities was being shut down. I remember when it was one of the leading free website providers, along with Angelfire. You are right, the entire business model was very Web 1.0 and they did not evolve to meet the changing needs of the internet user.
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By: baby development

baby development — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:36:52 +0000

I think it is a good decision to shut down geocities. I think it’s time came and went and well, no sense keeping it around.

By: Giochi

Giochi — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:29:38 +0000

I agree with this decision as Geocites as a free service tend to lower the quality of Yahoo overall.

By: mobilekaren

mobilekaren — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:25:26 +0000

I’m pretty surprised at Yahoo for doing this as it was a revenue stream for them with the ads on the websites.

By: Giochi

Giochi — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:16:38 +0000

I’m kind of glad they are dropping it. GeoCities used to be a really great place to have a home brew website. I met many friends there. Once GeoCities sold to Yahoo, it went by the wayside. Yahoo can’t manage anything without it being destroyed. I was so hoping that Microsoft would have bought Yahoo outright.