GeoCities Enters Into Business Partnership With Yahoo

Posted on January 5, 1998

GeoCities announced that it has entered into a strategic business partnership with Yahoo! Inc. to continue its leadership in community building on the Web. The strategic alliance between two of the Internet's market leaders will greatly increase the amount of traffic and homesteaders on GeoCities and offer GeoCities users an array of free personalized member services on Yahoo!.

Under the terms of the agreement, GeoCities will become Yahoo!'s premier partner providing personal publishing services for Yahoo! registered members. Yahoo! will market GeoCities' branded personal publishing programs on select areas throughout Yahoo!, and Yahoo! will also provide a GeoCities-specific programming module on My Yahoo! for GeoCities homesteaders. GeoCities users will also have the opportunity to register directly from GeoCities for Yahoo!'s free personalized services, including chat, e-mail, message boards, financial portfolios, classifieds and My Yahoo!.