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75,233,046 links to geocities sites to rank 42nd in the world. You would think Yahoo could do something better with (eg http://www.geocities.com/monkiineko/inde
by jsm386 16y ago
75,233,046 links to geocities sites to rank 42nd in the world. You would think Yahoo could do something better with (eg http://www.geocities.com/monkiineko/index.html http://www.geocities.com/monkiineko/index.html) for all that incoming traffic.
- sp332 16y agoYahoo took Geocities offline earlier this year. There are at least 6 copies of varying completeness available. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903567 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903567 http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities_Project http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities_Project http://www.archive.org/web/geocities.php http://www.archive.org/web/geocities.php http://www.oocities.com/ http://www.oocities.com/ http://www.geocities.ws/ http://www.geocities.ws/ and something from http://www.internetarchaeology.org/ http://www.internetarchaeology.org/ but I can't find the link.
- lsc 16y agoright, the parent was commenting that yahoo is essentially throwing away a site that has a very high number of backlinks. Seems to me that they would have been better off letting it go read-only, and then attempt to use it to sell other Yahoo services (I mean, if they thought the abuse costs of continuing to run geocities were too high; And I imagine that the abuse costs were the only real serious costs associated with continuing to run it.)
- benologist 16y agoWhen they killed it it had a higher Alexa rank than Digg too.