Today (October 26, 2009) one of the popular free hosting provider Yahoo! Geocities is closing there services. All the hosted sites are going to delete from the Geocities. Nearly 30,900,000 web pages are going to be deleted. And 8,160,000 image files also going to be lost from there location.
Geocities was started in January 1999 and, they have provided a valuable services to the users for ten years. During the early days of this year they have announced about the closing date. Finlay today they are going to close the services.

Today onwards they will delete all free hosted page from there server and it will going to be a broken links. But definitely search engines will manage this problem.