{"rewrite":{"id":"r_252dd84e4cada98e18bb35c8","clusterId":"c_d25a39493af6c4373b529577","slug":"yahoo-kids-to-end-service-on-december-4-2026-after-29-years","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Yahoo! Kids to End Service on December 4, 2026 After 29 Years","summary":"LINE Yahoo announced on September 28, 2026 that it will end its children's portal site \"Yahoo! Kids\" on December 4, 2026. The service remains usable as usual through December 3. A special page looking back on memories of the site is scheduled for November. The company cited a review of how it provides youth protection and literacy education, pointing to a changed digital environment for children: internet use has expanded past PC searching and browsing to school devices, smartphones, social media, messengers, video, and generative AI. Launched in 1997, Yahoo! Kids offered filtered search, study material, games, and picture encyclopedias, and by 2024 carried about 3,200 pieces of content. The closure notice thanks users: \"Yahoo! Kids has supported everyone's 'I want to know!' for 29 years.\" After the site ends, LINE Yahoo says it will keep and strengthen information ethics and digital literacy education, measures against online troubles, consultation services, and cooperation with schools, local governments, and parents.","whyItMatters":"LINE Yahoo is retiring a filtered search portal built for a PC-era childhood and shifting its youth protection budget toward digital literacy material, school partnerships, and consultation desks suited to a smartphone and generative AI environment.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eYahoo! Kids started on November 4, 1997, run by Yahoo Corporation at the time as part of its social contribution work. It aimed at elementary and junior high school students aged 7 to 15 and began as a directory of child-friendly sites plus keyword search.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly registration was manual. \u0026#34;Homepage registration specialist staff\u0026#34; called \u0026#34;surfers\u0026#34; viewed sites themselves and picked which ones were suitable for children. The site was renewed in 2024 and carried about 3,200 pieces of content at that point.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFeatures: help guides for the summer holiday \u0026#34;independent research\u0026#34; assignment, book report navigation, typing practice links, disaster prevention material, manga explainers on AI, programming challenges, \u0026#34;Kokokara Gakuen\u0026#34; on sexuality and being oneself, and projects on how money works.\u003c/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLearning: Japanese, arithmetic, science, and social studies for grades one through six, plus English, home economics, and integrated studies.\u003c/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIllustrated Guides: lookups by genre including jobs, animals, plants, the starry sky, and ingredients.\u003c/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGames: \u0026#34;Shiri Typing,\u0026#34; \u0026#34;Touch de English,\u0026#34; Hello Kitty titles, Reversi, and free throws.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA filtered image search launched in 2020. Game Spark and GameBusiness.jp both note that \u0026#34;Pooh\u0026#39;s Home Run Derby!\u0026#34;, playable from 2008 to 2020, drew a following around 2012 for its difficulty and for the batter nicknamed \u0026#34;Puniki.\u0026#34; It is no longer on the site but remains playable through the Internet Archive.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Yahoo! Kids, which ran from 1997 and carried about 3,200 pieces of content, closes December 4, 2026. Its closure notice: \"The time spent with everyone is a precious treasure for Yahoo! Kids.\"","twitterPost":"LINE Yahoo is ending Yahoo! Kids on December 4, 2026 and says its youth protection work will move to digital literacy material, anti-trouble measures, and consultation desks. The farewell page arrives in November.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"LINE Yahoo will close Yahoo! Kids on December 4, 2026, ending a children's portal that started in 1997 and grew to about 3,200 pieces of content. The company says the closure follows a review of youth protection and literacy education as children moved to school devices, smartphones, social media, and generative AI. A memories page is planned for November.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/991/G999113/20260929005/\",\"title\":\"Yahoo! Kids to End Service on December 4, 2026; 29-Year Run Comes to a Close\"},{\"source\":\"Denfaminicogamer\",\"url\":\"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/260929d\",\"title\":\"\\\"Yahoo! Kids\\\" service termination decided. Usable until December 3, ending about 30 years of history.\"},{\"source\":\"ASCII.jp\",\"url\":\"https://ascii.jp/elem/000/004/437/4437880/?rss\",\"title\":\"Yahoo! Kids to End Service: About 29 Years Since 1997, Closing Due to Changes in Children's Internet Use\"},{\"source\":\"KAI-YOU\",\"url\":\"https://kai-you.net/article/96689\",\"title\":\"\\\"Yahoo! 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