On Sat, 16 May 2009 09:28:07 +0200, Hugh Watkins <[email protected]> wrote: >Rupert Goodwins, the editor of ZDNet, perceived the closure of GeoCities >as an end of an era; he described GeoCities as "the first proof that you >could have something really popular and still not make any money on the >internet."[17] Vijay Mukhi, an Indian internet and cyber security expert >quoted in the Business Standard, criticized Yahoo's handling of >GeoCities; Mukhi described GeoCities as "a lost opportunity for Yahoo! >They could have made it a Facebook if they wanted." Rich Skrenta, the >CEO of Blekko, offered to buy GeoCities from Yahoo![19] << Undoubtedly the problem is caused by mismanagement by Yahoo! The problem is that having bought it, they neglected it and killed what made it popular, instead of developing and improving it. If they had developed and improved it, they could have made money from it. Even if some people do move their sites to another host (I certainly wouldn't trust Yahoo! again), there will still be a problem of millions of broken links all over the Internet. How many people will let the people who have linked to them know where their site has moved to? How many even know who has linked to them? -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/famhist1.htm http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7783/