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We reported earlier that Yahoo had decided to axe such accounts which have been inactive for extended periods. Now, the company has launched a Wish List where you can enter such usernames which you wish to acquire. Once Yahoo identifies that any of these usernames are available, they will be reassigned to you on a first-come first-serve basis.

Before Google dominated the online search, AltaVista was among the big wigs in the arena. The search engine was once the most popular stop for people to punch in their online queries. However, over time, AltaVista has been diminished to a barely significant product, which is why Yahoo has now decided to abandon it altogether.

Search engines conventionally display such results towards the top which are most relevant to the user's query. Same is usually true for the ads that are displayed alongside this content. However, search engines increasingly display paid ads without explicitly stating so. FTC has now sent warning letters to a number of companies over such…

Following in the footsteps of Microsoft, Facebook and Apple, Yahoo has also set out to reveal the number of data requests that it has received from the US government. According to the company, it received more than 12,000 such requests over the course of six months.

Yahoo has decided to reset all such inactive IDs and hand them out to any new users who want those IDs. The decision comes as part of CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to close all loose ends of the company and its services.

Yahoo has been clamping down on a number of its older services in recent months. The company rolled out a new email interface a while ago and now, it has announced that it will be shuttering Yahoo Mail Classic, which features the older interface, on June 3.

Yahoo recently bagged the popular blogging site, Tumblr, in a rather sizable buyout raking in more than a billion dollars. The buyout has been criticized by many, although Yahoo has vowed to keep Tumblr as awesome as it has been. According to reports, Tumblr's Creative Director has now decided to quit the company.