Yahoo "Close" 12 Services Their Applications

CALIFORNIA - In order to streamline the application, Yahoo will get rid of 12 products services as an effort to sharpen its focus on service. Reputedly, this is done to increase the quality of the applications that are many used by people in their daily lives.

"Today we close some of our products, so that we can continue to focus on creating products that can support the day-to-day our users," said executive vice president of Yahoo, Jay Rossiter in an his official blog post.

Previously, the company also already discard a lot of its products in the last april. Here are some of the services that will be closed by Yahoo, such as:

- Yahoo Axis, a browser plug-in (June 28)

- Yahoo Browser Plus, a service for application developers (June 28)

- Citizen Sports, sports news (June 28)

- Yahoo WebPlayer, media player to the site (June 30)

- FoxyTunes, a plug-in to control different media players (July 1)

- Yahoo RSS Alerts (July 1)

- Neighbors Yahoo Beta, to help get the information about the environment (July 8)

- Alta Vista, Yahoo's search engine the oldest (July 8)

- Stars Yahoo India, celebrity news (July 25)

- Yahoo Beta Download, applications to download third party (July 31)

- Yahoo Local API, applications that provide access to developer for local business information (28 September)

- Yahoo Term Extraction API, to extract terms and keywords of the site (28 September)

With will the closing of Alta Vista, Yahoo encourage users for migrate to the regular Yahoo search page. In addition, readers of sports news can switch from Citizen Sports to Yahoo Sports to stay updated news of his favorite team.

During the last few months, his party is being focusing on products and services in everyday life, such as email, weather applications, sports, finance and photos.

"We make investments and for it we also will continue to make investments that will encourage the growth," said CEO Marissa Mayer.