The Untimely Death of Yahoo, or, How the Double-Whammy of Web Architecture and Information Retrieval Will Do Yahoo In
http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/sep/last.html

Rosenfeld, Louis
CMC Magazine
1995

Abstract:

Yahoo is truly one of the Best of the Net, as it has filled an enormous void in the areas of browsing and searching Internet-based information. So I hope you'll believe that I am truly sad as I predict the death of Yahoo. It seems inevitable, as Yahoo's organization, its information architecture, will collapse under the weight of the high volume of entries. And, unfortunately, searching won't solve the problem of volume.