14 DAY TRIAL // Yahoo isn't doing so great but it is restructuring its business focusing on its 'core' services, at least that's what it's been telling us though at the rate it's closing them down it looks like it may be a very small set of 'core' services. Today the company is announcing the shutdown of yet another service, this time Yahoo Gallery, after Geocities earlier in the year and Yahoo 360 recently, with more following them.
“After careful consideration, we have decided to close the Yahoo! Gallery beta service. Although the Gallery gained a core of loyal users who enjoyed the service, Yahoo! has been reprioritizing some products to help us deliver the best possible experiences to consumers and developers. The decision to close the gallery is part of this larger strategy and will allow us to focus on helping our customers develop engaging applications using Yahoo! technologies,” reads the closure notice on Yahoo Gallery.
Yahoo Gallery was a place to showcase interesting apps that were built using Yahoo APIs and were aimed at the different, though shrinking in numbers, Yahoo services. This makes the claim that closing Gallery “will allow [Yahoo] to focus on helping [its] customers develop engaging applications using Yahoo! Technologies” a little confusing. In any way, Gallery never really took off and in fact it is still in beta, though, judging by the latest trends popularized by Google, the beta tag has lost much of its significance.
Still, most likely, the Internet company is going ahead according to plan ditching the projects that haven't proved successful or profitable moving towards a more unified Yahoo experience. With all the not so great news reports concerning Yahoo lately it's easy to forget that Yahoo.com still is the second most popular site on the planet, Yahoo Search is the second biggest search engine and that they have a large number of very successful services, like Flickr, just to name one.