Yahoo had / has several services or sites discontinued these past weeks - buzz.yahoo closed - a yahoo blog site (forgot which but NOT pulse!) closed - pulse blog discontinued - delici.us is sold all that looks more to cost saving than anything else - may be desperate attempts to avoid disaster without mail.yahoo and yahoo messenger, and all the other yahoo services outside search, the yahoo traffic might be tiny small http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yahoo.com# search.yahoo.com 16.92% all other traffic is non-search hence may be yahoo needs to cut costs and thus shuts down services to avoid defaulting or similar.