Originally Posted by Nautilus

I wonder, is this thing really that costly they need to drop it? With the bandwidth dirt cheap nowadays and the storage too, and the majority of content being simple static html pages, how much to they spend to support geocities?

I mean, I can understand google having problems with youtube, - that's a huge video site after all that hosts maybe half of worlds' online videos (but I still think the figure of their $500mil/year loss on youtube that is floating around is grossly overestimated) - but geocities? They're mostly html pages with a few pics if any, plus a long tail of old sites that still get traffic which is worth gold with contextual advertising while being almost free to run. Why would they drop it, I just don't get it... Or do I miss something?

Oh and they have their own advertising platform, why not to just plaster it everywhere and let people get checks for the ads displayed on their sites? Sorta sponsor free host model used in our business which is insanely profitable even with traffic heavy apps, which is not the case here. I'm sure nobody would bitch after the contextual ads panel was added to their site, if offered to get checks for it.