YAHOO IS CUTTING BACK AND CHANGING THE WAY THE WEB OPERATES...
YAHOO'S GEOCITIES IS CLOSING......AND TAKING DOWN MILLIONS OF WEB SITES...
MANY CAN STILL REMEMBER WHEN GEOCITIES WAS A "HOT" DOT COM STANDALONE COMPANY...BACK AROUND THE MID 90'S...
YAHOO IS NOW CHARGING $40 FOR A WEB URL NAME...PER YEAR...NOT THE PRIOR $10...
MANY OF THE EARLY SEARCH ENGINES AND "FREE" WEB SITE PROVIDERS ARE NOW GONE...OR REDUCED TO A VERY SMALL MARKET SHARE...
THE INTERNET SEEMS TO OPERATE ON THE "STAR SYSTEM"...WHATS HOT IS HOT...UNTIL IT'S NOT...THEN SOMETHING ELSE TAKES OVER...
COULD GOOGLE SOMEDAY BECOME..."PASSE"... OF COURSE...AND IT WILL HAPPEN...
AS MORE AND MORE WEB SERVER PROVIDERS AND PORTALS START CHARGING FOR THEIR SERVICES...
THE SHEAR MASS OF CONTENT ON THE WEB WILL DECREASE...
AND PERHAPS BECOME LIMITED TO LARGE SCALE CONTENT CONTENT PROVIDERS...WHO ARE WELL FUNDED.
IN SHORT, INSTEAD OF MILLIONS OF "WEB SITES" TO VIEW...
WEB SURFERS COULD BE LIMITED TO MERE THOUSANDS...AND MOST OF THOSE WILL BE HIGHLY COMMERCIALIZED!
IN THEORY THE CONTENT OFFERED SHOULD IMPROVE...WITH THE SHAKE OUT WEAK OR MARGINAL CONTENT PROVIDERS...
BUT THAT IS HAPPENING EVEN NOW...WITH SOME WEB SITES ESSENTIALLY BEING ABANDON BY THEIR MAKERS... LEFT FLOATING IN THE INTERNET CLOUD...UNCHANGED...UNVIEWED...AND MERELY TAKING UP BANDWIDTH ON SOMEONE'S "FREE SPACE" WEB SERVER...
VERY SOON I WOULD EXPECT MORE OF THIS "CULLING OUT" OF DEAD SITES...
CONSIDER YOUTUBE OR MYSPACE OR FACEBOOK...MANY OF THEIR SITES ARE ESSENTALLY DEAD...NOT ACTIVELY MAINTAINED BY THEIR MAKERS...
THE NUMBER OF "DEAD" BLOGS IS IN THE TENS OF MILLIONS...ALL OF THEM "FREE"... OF COURSE...
THINGS CHANGE...PEOPLE MOVE ON...
THE INTERNET IS NOT AS "FREE" AS IT ONCE WAS...
