Bye Bye Yahoo MyWeb. Google:Yahoo = 4:1

Call this evolution of technology precisely or blame it on recession (one step solution to our frustrations these days, I actually feel recession is a sweet guy lol), Yahoo MyWeb is going to close down on 18th March. This was always on the cards though. Especially after delicious being taken inside yahoo and Yahoo’s enhanced bookmarking service came into play, the services were overlapping with similar features. So you may call it stopping Yahoo MyWeb or in other words, integrate a better product using less alternatives which is perfectly understandable in any economic condition.

Let me quote Yahoo in this matter,

To streamline our bookmarking services, we will discontinue the MyWeb service starting March 18, 2009 and focus our efforts on improving Delicious for social bookmarking. We are working on many Delicious product enhancements for 2009 – in the meantime, we’ll make the transition for our MyWeb users in the least disruptive manner possible. MyWeb users have three choices to migrate their bookmarks:

1. Yahoo! Bookmarks. For users primarily interested in private bookmarking, the switch is simple – all MyWeb bookmarks are already available in Yahoo! Bookmarks.

2. Delicious . For users who enjoy sharing their bookmarks and exploring the bookmarks of other users, we recommend migrating to Delicious. The migration is a three-step process – see details here.

3. Export. For users who choose to use other bookmarking services, we recommend using our export tools, which will provide an archive of your bookmarks that is easily readable by 3rd party services and browsers such as Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

For publishers using the MyWeb Bookmark button or the MyWeb badge, we recommend migrating these to the Delicious button or badge.

If you have any questions about the migration, please contact us at the MyWeb Feedback page.

So you get the full picture right there. It just makes sense to merge / get rid of one at this time, no? Google stopped 4 services in the beginning of this year. Yahoo did 1. So, 4-1. Yahoo won’t mind losing this battle by a long margin I suppose, lol.