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Yahoo Directory to Shut Down On New Year Eve, Say Good Bye!

The Yahoo Directory project was unbelievably superb and flawless to find things as accurately as they are. This was one of the reasons of success behind Yahoo.com.. However, Mashable reported, the directory will be shut down on 31 August 2014 for life. Say good buy to this wonderful vault that never said to us. Embrace the change.

Yahoo Directory is human edited database of website. In fact it is most loved website owners and SEOs add websites and blogs and simply awesome to find valuable products and services.
However, times have changed, now information is available much frequently on social media. Gone are the days, when there required to dig inside categories and sub categories of Yahoo directory and search engines looking for a thing of needs. Now information reaches before you actually need it. Blame the social media or accept it. Information Highways are much faster now.

Since Marissa Mayer  taken over as Yahoo CEO, she shuts down many non profit making products and services. Yahoo Directory is one such addition in big business decisions.
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