Techcrunch and Readwriteweb has discussed about how Flickr ate Yahoo! photos. Yahoo has planned to close its online photosharing website Yahoo! Photos in favour of Flickr.

According to web metrics firm Hitwise, Yahoo! Photos is currently the number 2 photo website on the web, behind Photobucket, which has seized 40% of the market on the back of strong usage among MySpace visitors.

According to Charlene Li of Forrester Research,

Flickr, meanwhile, has gained on Yahoo!’s main photo property, jumping from the #6 photo website last year, to the #3 position today.

Flickr generally offers most of the tools that Yahoo! Photos offers. Flickr has also started to offer some printed products, such as photo cards via a partnership with Moo.

Yahoo Photos is currently the largest photo sharing site on the Internet, with around 2 billion stored photos. Flickr, by comparison, has around 500 million photos. But Flickr is also growing much faster than Yahoo photos and has just exceeded Yahoo! Photos in traffic, according to Comscore.

Mark

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