Yahoo new logo photo

Yahoo! chief marketing officer Kathy Savitt in a Tumblr post hinted that “the new logo will be a modern redesign that’s more reflective of our reimagined design and new experiences.” She added that a “variation of the logo” will be displayed on the Yahoo! homepage and “throughout our network in the U.S. for the next month.” Check out this teaser video, followed by the daily logos displayed during the “30 days of change”.

AltaVista closed officially by Yahoo

On July 8- Monday, Yahoo Inc. sent AltaVista.com to the Internet graveyard to rest alongside order-almost-anything venture Kozmo.com and the butler from Ask Jeeves.

According to the report from Huffingtonpost, eclipsed by Google in the early 2000s, AltaVista's star had already faded by the time Yahoo acquired it as part of its $1.7 billion purchase of Overture Services Inc. in July 2003. Overture had bought AltaVista earlier that year from Massachusetts-based CMGI Inc.