Type of site Photo sharing Commercial Yes | Owner Yahoo! Current status Closed indefinitely | |
Website photos.yahoo.com
(Redirects to flickr) Launched March 28, 2000; 17 years ago (2000-03-28) | ||
Yahoo! Photos was a photo sharing service laucnhed on March 28, 2000 and owned by Yahoo!, designed specifically for Yahoo! users. Users created individual photo albums, categorized their photos and placed them in the corresponding albums. Users were also able to set access of their albums by publishing them for the viewing pleasure of everyone, disabling access, or marking them as private folders for their own viewing.
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The service had unlimited storage for photos, but it was required that photos have the jpeg/jpg extension. In an effort to make it simpler and more efficient, Yahoo had an uploader tool to drag and drop the pictures from one's computer to Yahoo! Photos web page. In March 2005 Yahoo! purchased Flickr, and closed Yahoo! Photos on September 20, 2007 at 9:00 PM (PDT).
Shutdown
On June 16, 2007, Yahoo! Photos issued a press release stating that it would be terminating on September 20, 2007, in order to focus their efforts on Flickr.
Yahoo! Photos had proposed a number of alternatives for customers who wanted to move their photos to other services.
Several independent users have derived alternative solutions for migration of their photographs uploaded at Yahoo! Photos: