Yahoo! Avatars - Allowed users to create avatars for display on Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo! Answers; shut down on April 1, 2013. Yahoo! Aviate - Provided contextually relevant information on Android home screens; it was acquired in 2014 and shut down on March 8, 2018. Yahoo! Axis - A browser extension and mobile browser launched in May 2012 and discontinued June 28, 2013. Yahoo! Babel Fish - A translation service; shut down in May 2012 and replaced by Bing Translator. Bix - A website that provided tools for the creation of contests; acquired by Yahoo on November 16, 2006 and shut down on June 30, 2009. blo.gs - A directory of blogs; acquired in June 2005 and sold to Automattic, parent of WordPress.com in April 2009. Yahoo! Briefcase - A free file hosting service; shut down on March 30, 2009. Yahoo! Buzz - A community-based news article service that allowed users to publish news stories; shut down on April 21, 2011. MyBlogLog was discontinued on May 24, 2011. Yahoo! China shut down on September 2, 2013 and was redirected to taobao.com. Y!Connect - Enabled individuals to leave comments in Internet forums via their Yahoo ID. del.icio.us - A social bookmarking website; acquired on December 9, 2005 and sold to AVOS, owned by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, on April 27, 2011. Yahoo! Directory - A web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size and was the first product by Yahoo!; shut down in December 2014. Fire Eagle - A location brokerage service created by Yahoo Brickhouse; launched in March 2008. FoxyTunes - A browser extension that allowed users to control media players from the browser window; shut down on July 1, 2013. Yahoo! Gallery - A directory of application software built by third-party developers using Yahoo! technologies; shut down on July 14, 2009. Yahoo! Games - Allowed users to play games, such as chess, billiards, checkers and backgammon; launched upon acquisition of ClassicGames.com in 1997, shut down in 2016. Yahoo! GeoCities was a popular web hosting service founded in 1995 and was one of the first services to offer web pages to the public. In 1998, it was the third-most-browsed website. Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 and shut it down in 2009, deleting 7 million web pages. Many of those web pages are available at mirror sites such as the Internet Archive and OOCities.org. Yahoo! GeoPlanet