"Yahoo Photos and Flickr have different kinds of users with different needs, and will remain separate for the foreseeable future. Flickr would also suffer from a sudden deluge of LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg! so we're going to grow it carefully."
The move by Yahoo to focus its photo efforts on Flickr is partly an acknowledgment of Flickr's innovative tools and the changes in the demographics of photography. The younger Internet users who have flocked to Flickr are less interested in ordering prints and more interested in searching for and commenting on the photos of other users.
"Welcome to the new Yahoo! Photos!" That's the cheerful greeting atop the home page for Yahoo Photos, the online photo storage, sharing, and printing site maintained by the search-engine company. If a spate of online rumors is correct, however, the Yahoo Photos greeting will soon disappear, along with the service itself.
The report originated on Michael Arrington's blog, "TechCrunch," on Thursday, when he posted a conversation he had with Brad Garlinghouse, the Yahoo Senior Vice President of Communications & Communities, and Stewart Butterfield, one of the cofounders of Flickr, at the annual Outcast CEO dinner.
The two executives told Arrington that over the next few months, Yahoo Photos would be replaced by Flickr, the enormously popular photo-sharing and social-networking site that Yahoo purchased in March 2005.
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