Washington: Yahoo said it is shutting down Yahoo Directory and Yahoo Education which is a portal for education services, and Qwiki, an app for creating short movies from videos on a mobile device.
But the real significance, if only sentimentally, is the shut ting down of Yahoo’s Directory which was once the cornerstone of the company, CNET reported.
The service, lists popular sites by category, instead of surfacing search results by keyword, like search engines such as Google allow.
Even before the formation of the company, co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo created the directory in 1994, calling it ‘Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.’
The directory will officially close on December 31.