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Yahoo Killing Maps, Pipes & More

Posted by samzenpus on from the so-long dept.

alphadogg writes: Yahoo is shutting down its mapping service, Pipes and reducing the availability of Yahoo TV and Yahoo Music. The company has decided instead to focus on three major parts of its business: search, communications, and digital content. "We made this decision to better align resources to Yahoo's priorities as our business has evolved since we first launched Yahoo Maps eight years ago," says the company.

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  1. Yahoo has maps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who knew?

    1. Re:Yahoo has maps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yahoo maps is actually really nice. It is somehow one of the only map services that has a scale bar. I continue to be baffled by Google leaving this out. What the hell is the point of a map without a scale bar?

  2. Yahoo Should... by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yahoo should concentrate on figuring out who will be the last person out of the building, so they can make sure to turn off the lights.

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  3. noooo! not pipes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use pipes every single day in bash. What are we supposed to do now, redirect everything into a temporary file, like in the early days? That gets cumbersome with many steps, and anyway it is less multi-processor efficient, and CPUs have more than one core these days!

  4. Okay, why are you all being so tough on Yahoo? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay, sure, they're in a tough spot. None of us knew they even had maps, their email sucks, and nobody wants to work there because of recently introduced draconian measures.

    But that logo tweak Marissa Mayer shepherded to completion is amazing!

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