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41-607: BHI may refer to: Beverly Hills Internet , former name of GeoCities, a web hosting service BHI, station code for Birmingham International railway station , a United Kingdom railway station Black Hebrew Israelites , African Americans who claim that they are descendants of the ancient Israelites Black Hole Initiative , an interdisciplinary science program at Harvard University Bristol Heart Institute , research and medical clinic in Bristol, England British Horological Institute ,

82-401: A 24% decrease from March 2008. In 2017, indie developer Jay Tholen created the game Hypnospace Outlaw , which was heavily influenced by GeoCities. In February 2022, NeoCities Neighborhoods , a remake of GeoCities, was created, featuring the same interface that the original 1996 version had. During 1999, a complaint was instituted against GeoCities stating that the corporation violated

123-667: A commercial website. It included the GeoStore, which sold GeoCities-branded merchandise. Users cashed in GeoPoints in the store. The domain geocities.com attracted at least 177 million visitors annually by 2008, according to a Compete.com study. ComScore stated that the GeoCities had 18.9 million unique visitors from the U.S. during March 2006. During March 2008, GeoCities had 15.1 million unique U.S. visitors; however, during March 2009, GeoCities had 11.5 million unique visitors,

164-417: A consent order was entered into, prohibiting GeoCities from misrepresenting the purpose for which it collects and/or uses personal identifying information from consumers. A copy of the complaint and order can be found at 127 F.T.C. 94 (page 94). GeoCities provided free home pages and e-mail address to children and adults who provided personally identifying and demographic information when they registered for

205-556: A day and getting more than six million monthly page views. GeoCities never enforced neighborhood-specific content; for example, a "Hollywood" homesteader could be nothing but a college student's home page. The company decided to emphasize increasing membership and community, and on December 15, 1995, BHI became known as GeoCities after having also been named Geopages. At that time GeoCities was headquartered at 9401 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California . By December 1996, it

246-481: A search engine to search the directory. Unlike search engines, which base results on a database of entries gathered automatically by web crawler , most web directories are built manually by human editors. Many web directories allow site owners to submit their site for inclusion, and have editors review submissions for fitness. Web directories may be general in scope, or limited to particular subjects or fields. Entries may be listed for free, or by paid submission (meaning

287-414: Is a tedious and time-consuming job and is often outsourced by webmasters . Bid for Position directories , also known as bidding web directories, are paid-for-inclusion web directories where the listings of websites in the directory are ordered according to their bid amount. They are special in that the more a person pays, the higher up the list of websites in the directory they go. With the higher listing,

328-514: Is the oldest web directory. Most of the directories are general in on scope and list websites across a wide range of categories, regions and languages. But some niche directories focus on restricted regions, single languages, or specialist sectors. One type of niche directory with a large number of sites in existence is the shopping directory . Shopping directories specialize in the listing of retail e-commerce sites. Examples of well-known general web directories are Yahoo! Directory (shut down at

369-653: The NASDAQ exchange with the code GCTY. The initial public offering price was $ 17, increasing rapidly after the initial offering to a maximum of more than $ 100. By 1999 GeoCities was the third-most visited site of the World Wide Web, behind AOL and Yahoo! . The headquarters had been relocated to 4499 Glencoe Avenue in Los Angeles, near the Marina del Rey area of Los Angeles County . During January 1999, near

410-463: The URL unique (for example, "www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/number"). Chat, bulletin boards, and other elements of "community" were added soon afterward, helping foster rapid growth. On July 5, 1995, GeoCities added additional cities, including "CapitolHill", "Paris", "SiliconValley", and "Tokyo". By December 1995, the company, which now had a total of 14 neighborhoods, was registering thousands of Homesteaders

451-515: The bottom right corner of the browser screen. Many users felt the watermark interfered with the design of their Web site and threatened to relocate their Web pages elsewhere. The implementation of the watermark preceded the widespread adoption of CSS and the standardized Document Object Model and had cross-browser problems. However, GeoCities said in a press release that feedback regarding the watermark had been overwhelmingly positive. The company became corporate during August 1998, being listed with

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492-475: The catalogue of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research (for example, Tyrannosaurus rex specimen nicknamed "Stan" is identified with the inventory number "BHI 3033") Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title BHI . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

533-401: The company decided to offer users (thereafter known as "Homesteaders") the ability to develop free home pages within those neighborhoods, with 2 MB of space provided at the time. During the registration process, new members chose to which neighborhood they wanted to belong. This neighborhood became part of the member's Web address along with a sequentially assigned "street address" number to make

574-518: The data transfer limit for free accounts was said to be limited to 3 GB per month, but was enforced as a limit of about 4.2 MB per hour. The paid accounts were later unified in the Yahoo! Web Hosting service, with higher data transfer limits. During 2001, a rumor began that GeoCities was to be terminated; the chain e-mail making that claim cited an article in The New York Times that stated

615-440: The directory (at the risk of introducing lower-quality, less objective entries). Another direction taken by some web directories is the paid for inclusion model. This method enables the directory to offer timely inclusion for submissions and generally fewer listings as a result of the paid model. They often offer additional listing options to further enhance listings, including features listings and additional links to inner pages of

656-817: The end of 2014) and DMOZ (shut down on March 14, 2017). DMOZ was significant due to its extensive categorization and large number of listings and its free availability for use by other directories and search engines. However, a debate over the quality of directories and databases still continues, as search engines use DMOZ's content without real integration, and some experiment using clustering . There have been many attempts to make building web directories easier, such as using automated submission of related links by script, or any number of available PHP portals and programs. Recently, social software techniques have spawned new efforts of categorization, with Amazon.com adding tagging to their product pages. Directories have various features in their listings, often depending upon

697-566: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BHI&oldid=1152765004 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Beverly Hills Internet GeoCities , later Yahoo! GeoCities , was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest, active from 1994 to 2009. GeoCities

738-551: The internet." Vijay Mukhi, an internet and cybersecurity expert quoted in the Business Standard , criticized Yahoo's management of GeoCities; Mukhi described GeoCities as "a lost opportunity for Yahoo!", adding that "they could have made it a Facebook if they wanted." Rich Skrenta , the CEO of Blekko , posted on Twitter an offer to take over GeoCities from Yahoo! in exchange for 50% future revenue share. In response to

779-514: The likes of Tripod and Angelfire . By June 1997, GeoCities was the fifth most popular website on the Web, and by October of that year the company had registered its millionth Homesteader. During June 1998, in an effort to increase brand awareness, GeoCities introduced a watermark to user Web pages. The watermark, much like an onscreen graphic on some television channels, was a transparent floating GIF image that used JavaScript to stay displayed on

820-465: The listed website. These options typically have an additional fee associated but offer significant help and visibility to sites and/or their inside pages. Today submission of websites to web directories is considered a common SEO ( search engine optimization ) technique to get back-links for the submitted website. One distinctive feature of 'directory submission' is that it cannot be fully automated like search engine submissions. Manual directory submission

861-528: The name of the site. Soon after its acquisition by Yahoo! , this practice was abandoned in favor of using the Yahoo! member names in the URLs. In April 2009, the company announced that it would end the United States GeoCities service on October 26, 2009. There were at least 38 million pages displayed by GeoCities before it was terminated, most user-written. The GeoCities Japan version of

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902-415: The name of the site. Soon after its acquisition by Yahoo!, this practice was abandoned in favor of using the Yahoo! member names in the URLs. During 1996, GeoCities had 29 "neighborhoods", which had groupings of content created by the "homesteaders" (GeoCities users). By 1999, GeoCities had additional neighborhoods and refocused existing neighborhoods. During 1999, GeoCities included GeoCities Marketplace,

943-560: The opposite. On April 23, 2009, Yahoo! announced that it would be terminating its United States version of GeoCities, and stopped accepting new registrations, though the existing GeoCities accounts remained active. During late June 2009, Yahoo! updated the GeoCities home page to indicate: "GeoCities is closing on October 26, 2009." GeoCities joined a long list of other services discontinued by Yahoo, such as Farechase, LAUNCHcast , My Web, Audio Search, Pets, Photos , Live , Kickstart, Briefcase , Webmessenger, and Yahoo! Teachers . With

984-644: The original GeoCities URL formerly redirected to Yahoo! Small Business, but now redirect to the Yahoo! main page. Soon after the GeoCities termination announcement, the Internet Archive announced a project to archive GeoCities pages, stating "GeoCities has been an important outlet for personal expression on the Web for almost 15 years." Internet Archive made it their task to ensure the thoroughness and completeness of their archive of GeoCities sites. The former Web site InternetArchaeology.org also archived and showcased artifacts from GeoCities. The operators of

1025-651: The peak of the dot-com bubble , GeoCities was purchased by Yahoo! for $ 3.57 billion in stock, with Yahoo! taking control on May 28. The acquisition proved unpopular; users began to quit en masse in protest at the new terms of service specified by Yahoo! for GeoCities. The terms stated that the company owned all rights and content, including media such as pictures. Yahoo! quickly reversed its decision. During July 1999, Yahoo! switched from neighborhood and street addresses Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for homesteaders to "vanity" URLs through members' registration names to Yahoo! ("www.geocities.com/membername"). This service

1066-965: The price paid for inclusion: A human-edited directory is created and maintained by editors who add links based on the policies particular to that directory. Human-edited directories are often targeted by SEOs on the basis that links from reputable sources will improve rankings in the major search engines . Some directories may prevent search engines from rating a displayed link by using redirects, nofollow attributes, or other techniques. Many human-edited directories, including DMOZ , World Wide Web Virtual Library , Business.com and Jasmine Directory , are edited by volunteers, who are often experts in particular categories. These directories are sometimes criticized due to long delays in approving submissions, or for rigid organizational structures and disputes among volunteer editors. In response to these criticisms, some volunteer-edited directories have adopted wiki technology, to allow broader community participation in editing

1107-511: The provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 , specifically 15 U.S.C.   § 45 , which states in relevant part, "Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful." The FTC found that GeoCities was engaged in deceptive acts and practices in contravention to their stated privacy act. Subsequently,

1148-577: The representative body of the horological industry in the United Kingdom Brain heart infusion broth, a growth medium for growing microorganisms Bald Head Island, North Carolina , a village located in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States BHI, former stock symbol of Baker Hughes , a General Electric (American) industrial service company BHI, inventory number code assigned to all specimen or sample included in

1189-427: The service endured until March 31, 2019. GeoCities began during mid-1995 as BHI, which stood for Beverly Hills Internet, a small Web hosting and development company in southern California. The company created its own Web directory , organized thematically as six so-called "neighborhoods". The neighborhoods included "Colosseum", "Hollywood", "RodeoDrive", "SunsetStrip", "WallStreet", and "WestHollywood". In mid-1995,

1230-468: The site Reocities downloaded as much of the content hosted on GeoCities as they could before it ended, in an attempt to create a mirror of GeoCities, albeit an incomplete one. Another site attempting to build an archive of defunct GeoCities sites is GeoCities.ws. There is no formal relationship between GeoCities and geocities.ws, as it is a completely different company. Many sites were duplicated automatically from GeoCities to geocities.ws many months after

1271-561: The site owner must pay to have his or her website listed). RSS directories are similar to web directories, but contain collections of RSS feeds , instead of links to websites. During the early development of the web, there was a list of web servers edited by Tim Berners-Lee and hosted on the CERN webserver. One historical snapshot from 1992 remains. He also created the World Wide Web Virtual Library , which

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1312-529: The termination of GeoCities in the U.S., Yahoo! no longer offered free web page hosting, except in Japan , where the service continued for ten more years. Yahoo! encouraged users to upgrade their accounts to the fee-based Yahoo! Web Hosting service. Rupert Goodwins, the editor of ZDNet , perceived the termination of GeoCities as an end of an era; he described GeoCities as "the first proof that you could have something really popular and still not make any money on

1353-438: The termination of GeoCities. Geocities.ws also promised free hosting, and for eight years this has been the case, as of January 2018 . Other sites with this purpose were WebCite , as well as now-defunct Geociti.es (closed 2011), Oocities.org and Ge.ocities.org. On the first anniversary of GeoCities' termination, Archive Team announced that they would release a torrent file archive of 641 GB (prior to 7z compression, it

1394-522: The termination, rival Web hosting services began to compete for the sites formerly displayed by GeoCities. For instance, German Web host Jimdo started the "Lifeboat for GeoCities" service to encourage GeoCities users to display their sites on Jimdo. Geocities-closing.com , started by GeoCities competitor uCoz , is a similar project begun to save GeoCities websites. Many of the webpages formerly hosted by GeoCities remained accessible, but could not be updated, until 2014. Attempts to access any page using

1435-574: The website. At the time of the complaint, GeoCities had more than 1.8 million members who were "homesteaders". GeoCities illegally permitted third-party advertisers to promote products targeted to GeoCities' 1.8 million users, by using personally identifiable information obtained in the registration process. These acts and practices affected "commerce" as defined in Section 4 of the Federal Trade Commission. The problem of GeoCities

1476-495: Was approximately 900 GB of data), and did so on October 29, 2010. On April 9, 2011, Archive Team released a patch for the first GeoCities torrent. In its original form, site users selected a so-called "city" in which to list the hyperlinks to their Web pages. The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content: For example, computer -related sites were displayed in "SiliconValley" and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood", hence

1517-734: Was headquartered on the third floor of 1918 Main Street in nearby Santa Monica , with an office on the 8th floor of the Pershing Square Building at 125 Park Avenue in New York City . Over time, many companies, including Yahoo! , invested extensively in GeoCities and, with the introduction of paid premium services, the site continued to grow. During May 1997, GeoCities introduced advertisements on its pages. Despite negative reaction from users, GeoCities continued to grow compared to rivals. Competition in web hosting came from

1558-487: Was not allowed to collect personal identifying information from any child if GeoCities had actual knowledge that the child did not have their parents' permission to provide the information. Web directory There are two ways to find information on the Web: by searching or browsing . Web directories provide links in a structured list to make browsing easier. Many web directories combine searching and browsing by providing

1599-405: Was offered previously only as a premium. During 2001, amid speculation by analysts that GeoCities was not yet profitable (it having declared an $ 8 million loss for the final quarter of 1998), Yahoo! introduced a for-fee premium hosting service at GeoCities and reduced the accessibility of free and low-price hosting accounts by limiting their data transfer rate for Web page visitors; since that time

1640-735: Was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and was named Beverly Hills Internet briefly before being renamed GeoCities. On January 28, 1999, it was acquired by Yahoo! , at which time it was reportedly the third-most visited website on the World Wide Web . In its original form, site users selected a "city" in which to list the hyperlinks to their Web pages . The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content: For example, computer -related sites were placed in "SiliconValley" and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood", hence

1681-569: Was that it placed a privacy statement on its New Member Application Form and on its website promising that it would never give personally identifying information to anyone without the user's permission. GeoCities sold personal information to third parties who used the information for purposes other than those for which members gave permission. It was ordered that GeoCities would not make any misrepresentation, in any manner about its collection or use of personal identifying information, including what information will be disclosed to third parties. GeoCities

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