Yahoo has announced that it is shutting down Yahoo Maps at the end of June. Maps will still be used in the context of Yahoo search and on several other Yahoo properties including Flickr. In the announcement, Yahoo said “We made this decision to better align resources to Yahoo’s priorities as our business has evolved since we first launched Yahoo Maps eight years ago.”
Yahoo Maps had become very popular but Google Maps has overtaken it for a long time already in many fronts. With Apple putting more resources behind its own map service, the competition has only gotten fiercer for Yahoo Maps.
Other media-specific services will also be shutdown in June.
