Yahoo Directory, the world’s oldest website directory, has gone offline after 20 years of service and has been replaced by Yahoo Small Business.
Yahoo Directory was the first service that established Yahoo as an internet company but with the rise of Google as the go-to website for search, the popularity of paid directories like Yahoo Directory started to decline.
It was announced in September 2014 that Yahoo Directory would be taken offline at the end of the year. The shutdown is part of Yahoo’s attempt to streamline its product offerings as they have closed more than 60 products in the last two years.
“With even more smart, innovative Yahoos focused on our core products — search, communications, digital magazines and video — we can deliver the best for our users,” Jay Rossiter, Yahoo’s senior vice president of the cloud platform group, said in a blog post.
