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Yahoo will close its news service Buzz tomorrow
INTERNET PORTAL Yahoo will shut down its free news sharing service called Buzz, which it started in 2008, as of tomorrow.
A blog post from Yahoo said that the website will be inaccessible from 21 April. It wrote, "This was a hard decision. However this will help us focus on our core strengths and new innovations. We appreciate your patronage."
News of the website's dismissal shouldn't come as a shock, as an anonymous user on Twitter leaked the information and also claimed that Yahoo will shut down other services like Delicious.
Buzz is commonly known as similar to the popular crowd-sourced news website Digg, which was one of its biggest competitors along with Reddit.
Yahoo's aim for Buzz was to attempt to drive traffic to its web portal and give it an advantage against rivals like Google and MSN.
Websites like Twitter and Facebook, which dominate the web with phenomenal user bases and traffic, are likely to be another reason that alternatives like Buzz struggle to be successful.
Yahoo has also announced that its poor financial results for the year so far were due to Microsoft, after a partnership that saw Yahoo adopt the search engine Bing. µ
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Isn't that what is so wrong with this society? Personally I'm still mourning Yahoo Buzz, even though its comments (in uk too!) were full of troglodytes! (Obviously because it was easy to find/use.) It was rather an abrupt killing-off. Yahoo weren't to be trusted with geocities either: hope they can manage their email service! (Which is my oldest subscription on the Web.)
They had a news service? Perhaps if their bloody servers worked more than 30% of the time, I'd have noticed.