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SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it plans to close GeoCities, a website publishing and hosting service it bought in May 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom for around $3 billion in stock.
The service will be shut down later this year. Visitors to the site now see a message that says new GeoCities accounts will not be available and gives them the option to sign up for Yahoo’s Web hosting service for $5.98 a month.
