Yesterday, a leaked internal Yahoo slide brought us the news that Yahoo will soon be shuttering Del.icio.us, the bookmarking service it bought a few years back. Today, Yahoo has released a statement on the group’s blog. We’ve embedded the the entirety of the blog post below.

Yahoo says that while Delicious doesn’t have a “strategic fit” at the company, it will not be shutting the service down entirely for now. In fact, it looks like Yahoo is going to find a new home for Delicious (a.k.a. sell).

Of course, unsurprisingly Yahoo is blaming the press for its own PR mismanagement, writing “Speaking for our team, we were very disappointed by the way that this appeared in the press.” Umm, what? If they would have said all of this yesterday and been more responsive, then there ould not have been so much speculation. It took Yahoo 24 hours to admit that it admit that Delicious won’t be shut down after all?

And this raises the question of whether Yahoo originally planned to “sunset” Delicious and now just changed its mind in the past 24 hours because of all the uproar from users and the press.

I guess judging from the company’s PR strategy throughout the reports of layoffs, we shouldn’t be surprised.