Geocities was one of the most popular thing on Internet in last few years. It has brought a charm to create your own webpage. Free web hosting has attracted millions of users to Geocities. Yahoo has bought Geocities in $3 billion in 1999. Now Yahoo has decided to shut down Gecities Later this year.
You might have noticed that Yahoo Geocities is not accepting any new user signup now. If you visit "Yahoo! GeoCities Help" , definitely you will see the bad news. Yahoo Geocities Help page is showing that they are going to close down geocities sometime later this year. No extra information is available. They are saying that Yahoo will communicate soon to save existing webpages this summer.
But the main question will be why Yahoo is closing down Geocities... The easiest answer will be Blogs, Orkut, Facebook and other social networking sites. These have cause rapid fall in popularity of Geocities. A report says GeoCities unique visitors in the US fell 24 per cent in March to 11.5 million unique visitors from 15.1 million in March 2008. Back in October 2006, it had 18.9 million unique visitors.
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