Some of the applications closed by yahoo

by Tracey Wood Marketing Head

Yahoo has been long famous for the enhanced application it provides. All these applications it provides right on its mail platform. The enhanced applications that it provides for its users make it unique among its competitors. It is sure that users get much more on their yahoo platform and thus they never wish to switch to any other mailing platform for their needs. Yes of course yahoo is famous for mailing services but these additional services right at its mail platform makes it achieve highest number of customer so far. Yahoo services and its application is all user friendly but in case user face any issue using any of the yahoo services it is possible to obtain easy help from Yahoo Phone Number.

Yahoo always focuses on providing enhanced application right at its platform and thus it famous for providing enhanced application and services with its platform. It is sure that when yahoo feels that some of its applications are outdated and user do not use it any more it closes those applications to focus and provide other best applications to its users. With each rolled out update it closes some to bring new application but user keeps on searching the old application as well thus it is thus it is necessary that users know which are those applications which have been closed by yahoo so that they do not search them anymore. Some of those applications which yahoo has already shut down are as follows:

1. Ask Yahoo: This has been a yahoo platform which was available for question and answer. This Q & A platform was shut down by yahoo in 2005 so that new Yahoo! Answers app can be built.

2. Bix: It was a contest tool of yahoo that discontinued in 2009.

3. Foxy Tunes: Foxy Tunes was a shuttered music service of yahoo and the today’s alternative for this is yahoo iTunes averse.

4. Yahoo! Axis: Yahoo axis is a discontinued yahoo mobile browser which was also been used as a web browser extension for iOS devices.

5. Yahoo! Avatars: This was a useful yahoo application feature that sadly was discontinued by yahoo in the year 2013. With the yahoo avatars, yahoo users were able to design avatars for their Yahoo profile.

6. Yahoo! Babel Fish: Yahoo! Babel Fish was a free multilingual translation service of yahoo. It was later replaced with Bing Translator in 2012. Any users who mistakenly still enter to Babel Fish website automatically get transferred to Bing Translator.

7. Yahoo! Briefcase: Yahoo provided a special version of iCloud with yahoo briefcase. This application was shut down in 2009.

8. Yahoo! Buzz: Yahoo buzz sadly died in 2011. It was a useful community that was based on news, article website etc. It was a platform that used to provide dreams to all non professional news writers.

9. Yahoo! Directory: Everyone known yahoo directory because most of the yahoo users have used yahoo directory. It was first known offering of yahoo. It was closed by yahoo on 2014 when other useful yahoo application appeared which were relevant to yahoo directory.

10. Yahoo! Family Accounts: Yahoo doesn’t currently support the creation of any new family accounts.

11. Yahoo! Gallery: Yahoo gallery was just like the mobile gallery option which that offered access to other applications. It is a shuttered yahoo service now. But user may now use new Yahoo! Pulse application that serves with the same purpose. If users get into yahoo gallery by chance they will automatically be redirected to yahoo pulse now.

12. Yahoo! Games: Yahoo games that sadly passed away earlier this year was a interesting yahoo application for Spades players! It provided many online entertainment games for yahoo user’s right at the yahoo platform.

13. Yahoo! Go: Yahoo go is now a discontinued yahoo app which was actually a Java-based phone application for PDA users and other mobile users. It provided an access to Yahoo products.

14. Yahoo! Koprol: Yahoo! Koprol was an Indonesian social networking service of yahoo that later shut down in the year 2012.

15. Yahoo! Kids: Yahoo! Kids that was once also known as Yahooligans! Discontinued in 2013.

By eliminating yahoo is focusing highly on providing other enhanced application. There are many yahoo applications that are useful for its users. It is advisable to know and use all these service for better experience online on yahoo and if you wish to know more about they stay in touch with Yahoo Service Number.