Yahoo Directory Closed and Launched Yahoo Small Business

Yahoo Directory, the core part of how Yahoo itself began in 1994, officially closed today, five days ahead of when Yahoo had said the end would come. The core service that launched Yahoo as an internet company -- the Yahoo Directory -- finally closes 20 years after it began. The new page still has the general look and feel of the old Yahoo Directory, listing categories that are not necessarily small business related, such as Linguistics. If you try to reach the Yahoo Directory at its long-standing address
of http://dir.yahoo.com. you’ll now be redirected to a new location of https://business.yahoo.com/ with a home page carrying a “Yahoo Small Business” logo:



However, if you try to review the listings in any category, you’ll receive an error page like this:



My guess is that Yahoo is still doing work on the removal of the old site and turning it into whatever it has planned, which seems likely to be some type Yellow Pages-style service.

While the new site carries the Yahoo Small Business logo, Yahoo Small Business is actually located on its own separate site. Likely, this new directory will get linked into the promotion services that Yahoo Small Business offers.

In September, Yahoo announced that the closure would happen, saying:

Advertisers will be upgraded to a new service; more details to be communicated directly.

An Earlier End

Yahoo also said the closure would happen on December 31. Instead, it’s closed five days early. There’s been no blog post about the change, and given the errors, it’s likely that work will continue and culminate in an official post on the last day of this month.

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