Yahoo Photos closes down..

Yahoo's first generation photo sharing site Yahoo Photos closes on September 20th 2007 at 6 pm. The users can move their photos to the photo sharing site Flickr. Yahoo! is not accepting any new accounts or allowing existing users to upload new photos. Users have the option to transfer their photos to other photo sharing sites like Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish, and Photobucket.



This follows after Yahoo's share in the photo sharing market has been cut down to 5.8 % (in the US market). Yahoo! bought Flickr in 2005 which has seen a phenomenal growth in the users and the volume of photos uploaded. Yahoo Photos is a more conventional photo-finishing site, full of family snapshots, while Flickr has attracted a passionate fan base of amateur and professional photographers who use the site to share digital photos online, and for whom printing is largely an afterthought. Yahoo! had been maintaining both the sites for the past two years keeping in mind the different user base but has decided to pull the plug now.