Yahoo continued to support both Photos and Flickr over the past two years, reflecting the different audiences of the two sites. Flickr, meanwhile, has grown to 4.5 percent, up from 3.7 percent, according to Hitwise U.S. In the same period, Yahoo Photos’ share has been cut two- to three times over to around 5.8 percent of the U.S. “Flickr will get top-billing, of course,” Butterfield said in an interview late on Thursday about the plan to give users multiple alternatives. Outside sites include PhotoBucket - the most popular online photo sharing service among users of social network sites like News Corp.’s MySpace - or more conventional photo printing and storage site such as Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly Inc. Yahoo also will offer consumers the option of loading their photos on competing sites when users are notified next month. REUTERS/In June, tens of millions of registered users of Yahoo Photos will be notified of various options including upgrading to Yahoo’s Flickr service or various outside-photo storage sites, according to Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield. is shutting down Yahoo Photos, its first-generation photo storage site, and asking users to move instead to Yahoo's Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr, a Yahoo official said on Thursday.
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