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Yahoo buys Flickr?

12 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/yahoo-buys-flickr.60933/

goobimama
goobimama Original post #1
Jun 21, 2007 at 12:16 AM
I was browsing through Flickr today, when I noticed that it was owned by Yahoo. When did this happen? Or was Flickr a service by yahoo?

If someone knows more about this, it would be great.

If this has been posted before, I apologise, cause I searched the forum "Flickr yahoo"....
QwertyManiac
Jun 21, 2007 at 12:20 AM
Whoa, it's been so long since that happened and now Yahoo's gonna close its Photos feature for it too!

*www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1777908,00.asp

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goobimama
Jun 21, 2007 at 12:29 AM
Well that thing says "Agreed to buy". When did the transition take place? Cause i logged into flickr a few months ago with my flickr account. Now I need to use my yahoo account...
eddie
eddie #4
Jun 21, 2007 at 12:33 AM
Yahoo Buys Flickr
*www.google.co.in/search?q=yahoo+bu...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I don't know how you missed it but its been very long. Also, even the main page has been displaying Yahoo! logo since like more than a year now.
QwertyManiac
Jun 21, 2007 at 12:35 AM
goobimama said:
Well that thing says "Agreed to buy". When did the transition take place? Cause i logged into flickr a few months ago with my flickr account. Now I need to use my yahoo account...
March 20th 2005
*news.com.com/Yahoo+buys+photo-sharing+site+Flickr/2100-1038_3-5627640.html

and they just started forcing Yahoo-only accounts since the new anti-phish feature of the same.
~Phenom~
Jun 21, 2007 at 12:35 AM
@eddie , yeah. Its real old news.
goobimama
Jun 21, 2007 at 12:42 AM
(smacks his virtual hand on his virtual head) Whoopsie for me then....
aryayush
Jun 23, 2007 at 2:46 AM
@goobimama

Dude, I just have one question: How did you manage to lift that huge rock and how did you survive for so many days under it? :D

When I saw the title of the thread, the first thought that occurred to me was, "What! Again? How's that possible!" :lol:
chesss
chesss #9
Jun 23, 2007 at 3:38 AM
searched the forum "Flickr yahoo"....
dude don't search the forum, First thing google it .
goobimama
goobimama #10
Jun 23, 2007 at 4:40 AM
Well the first link I got by googling "yahoo buys flickr" (try it out) was a cnet link, with 18th June 2007 at the end of the Green URL part. Then I opened the link and didn't bother looking on for the date of the real article...
aryayush
aryayush #11
Jun 23, 2007 at 9:50 AM
Offtopic: Awesome custom title! Way to go, buddy! Just say it as it is. :D
eddie
eddie #12
Jun 23, 2007 at 7:43 PM
goobimama said:
Well the first link I got by googling "yahoo buys flickr" (try it out) was a cnet link, with 18th June 2007 at the end of the Green URL part.
That date just informs you when google bot last crawled the page. Not the date of the article/page.