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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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line-height: 110%;">OPLIN 4cast #405: Goodbye,
Yahoo Directory</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><img
src="cid:part4.05050301.06070301@oplin.org"
alt="Yahoo logo" align="left" height="70"
width="110">Last Friday, in a <a
href="http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/98474044364/progress-report-continued-product-focus">progress
report</a> on "Product Focus," Yahoo included
three sentences announcing that "our business has
evolved and at the end of 2014 (December 31), we
will retire the Yahoo Directory." While this is
not surprising news - some of you youngsters may
not even know what the Yahoo Directory is - it
caught our attention because the original <a
href="http://oplin.org/content/oplin-website-through-years">OPLIN
website</a> from mid-1996 to early 1999 was
basically a collection of "link directories" (or
"web directories") similar to the Yahoo Directory.
Before the founding of Google in 1998, link
directories were the way people found things on
the Internet. Librarians spent a lot of time
building link directories and posting them on the
Internet because that's what librarians do; they
help people find information. So in a way, the end
of the Yahoo link directory is the end of one
chapter in the history of the Internet that
included a significant role for librarians.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://uproxx.com/gammasquad/2014/09/yahoo-closing-yahoo-web-directory/">Yahoo!
is scuttling the only thing we knew them from</a>
(UPROXX | Bea Kaye) "If you're like me, then you
had no idea that Yahoo! was actually an acronym.
In 1994, Stanford students Jerry Yang and David
Filo created a comprehensive web directory. At
first they named it 'Jerry and David's Guide to
the World Wide Web', but shortly changed it to
'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.' (If
you are under the age of 20: Search engines
sucked in the '90s. Web directories like Yahoo
were where it was at.)"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-close-204370">The
Yahoo Directory - once the Internet's most
important search engine - is to close</a>
(Search Engine Land | Danny Sullivan) "A
'directory' relies on humans to review websites,
summarize them with short descriptions and
organize them into a categories. When Yahoo
started, this system was effective, because
there weren't that many pages on the web
(relatively speaking) and automated search
technology to organize websites wasn't very
good."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.besttechie.com/2014/09/27/end-of-an-era-yahoo-directory-to-shut-down-dec-31/">End
of an era: Yahoo Directory to shut down Dec.
31</a> (Best Techie | Shawn Farner) "For a
long time, the Directory was a big part of
Yahoo's business. That all changed when
automated crawlers began indexing websites, and
Yahoo partnered with several companies
(including Google) to provide search results
that weren't compiled by humans. The Directory
still existed, but it just wasn't as important
as it was in Yahoo's heyday - the early-to-late
'90s."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2688492/yahoo-will-ring-in-the-new-year-by-killing-its-website-directory.html">Yahoo
will ring in the new year by killing its
website directory</a> (PCWorld | Zach Miners)
"Yahoo is also not the company it used to be.
Since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012,
she's engineered a number of acquisitions and
launched new products and apps, like digital
video and online magazines, aimed at making
Yahoo more relevant. But still, some things must
go."</li>
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the <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org">Ohio
Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">
Below is a link directory of "Electronic
Resources" from the original OPLIN website.
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class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4934"
src="cid:part12.09070200.00040600@oplin.org"
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