It’s truly an end of an era. Geocities, the free web hosting service that Yahoo purchased in 1999, has officially been removed from all the major search engines. Millions of pages, millions of neighborhoods, millions of links — poof — have vanished with nary a trace.
Google appears to have been the first to nuke Geocities from its index stating that once the domain was shutdown, resulting in massive broken links and a poor user experience, that it was an easy solution to remove them.
Here’s the site command view at Google:
It seems that Yahoo and Bing followed suit sometime over the weekend. I also checked Ask.com and AOL’s search and Geocities has been removed from those as well.
The scene at Bing?
This isn’t anything but a blip on the current search engine landscape, but as a long-time internet marketer, I thought it was worthy of mention. Again, the end of an era. And if you have any interest in SEO techniques with Geocities in the old days, feel free to give us a call and speak to our Director of Search.
