A Silicon Valley landmark is coming down at the end of the year, and while landmarks in the tech-centric region are sometimes more cyber than brick-and-mortar, their passing is still a cause for ...

Let's just say it's 1995 and you're looking for information on the Web. Where do you go? Well, history tells us a lot of people went to the Yahoo Directory, a cutting edge tool to manage the ...

The Yahoo Directory was Yahoo's first flagship service. It lasted through all of the company's scrambles with search, but won't survive the year. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 ...

It’s New Year’s Eve 2014, otherwise known as the official last day of Silicon Valley online landmark the Yahoo Directory (although Search Engine Land points out it actually closed five days early). A ...

Yahoo, which got its start as a digital phone book of websites, is closing that book. Yahoo will shut down its Directory service on Dec. 31, the company said Friday in a blog post. As for why, the ...

One of the most important sites of the web’s first era is about to go offline. Here’s a better suggestion. I happen to remember the very first thing I did on the World Wide Web. It was the fall of ...

In 1994, Stanford students Jerry Yang and David Filo listed a bunch of their favorite websites on a single directory page. They grew and managed that list until Yahoo was founded and the tool became a ...

Goodbye Yahoo Search, rest in peace. The partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo, announced Tuesday, will mark the end of Yahoo Search. Next year, when the deal is expected to be finalized, if you run ...

Just a few weeks ago, people started noticing that the Yahoo Directory lost Google PageRank. Well, not the home page of the Yahoo Directory, but the inside directory listing pages. The pages that link ...

This topic comes up fairly often - is the Yahoo Directory still worth the submission fee? We know it gets very little traffic and drives very few leads to a web site. So probably not worth it for the ...