Yahoo's Flickr Sees Big Traffic Boost from Obama Shots

At a time when Yahoo is struggling through failed Google deals, and backstage shots before and after the historic speech Obama gave.

This will probably have a bigger impact on photographer David Katz's career than it will on Yahoo's future, but it will no doubt point a great deal of people Flickr's way, and that isn't a bad thing for them. Unless of course, if the site is crashed when you try to visit it, as Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider Gawker notes, "In some prior election year, the behind-the-scenes footage of a president-elect's first moments might have been captured by a photographer for, say, Life, or at least distributed through a glossy magazine like that."

A check out Katz's gallery.

All things considered, Election day was a good boost for Yahoo Traffic. Yahoo News was also the

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