Yahoo

Also known as Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web, yahoo.com

Yahoo (, styled 'yahoo!''''' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native. It is operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon.

AI overview

Yahoo is an American website that offers a search engine, email service, news, finance information, sports coverage, and other online services. It matters because it was one of the earliest and most popular web portals, and it remains a widely-used platform for search, email, and news for millions of people.

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Key facts

Website.name: Yahoo
Website.logo: Yahoo! (2019).svg
Website.logo_caption: Logo used since September 23, 2019
Website.type: Web portal and online services
Website.registration: Optional
Website.revenue: $7.4 billion (2020)
Website.current_status: Active
Website.company_type: Subsidiary
Website.products: List of products
Website.num_employees: 8,600 (2017)
Website.advertising: Yahoo Ad Tech
Website.location_city: Sunnyvale, California
Website.location_country: United States
Website.area_served: Worldwide

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.yahoo.com
Image: Yahoo Headquarters.jpg

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Commons category: Yahoo!
inception: 1994-01-00
Commons gallery: Yahoo!
Alexa rank: 2
ACM Classification Code (2012): 10011568
Similarweb ranking: 9
social media followers: 1427391

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23 sections

Contents

Etymology
History
Founding
Expansion and the dot-com bubble
Missed opportunities to acquire Google
Missed opportunity to sell to Microsoft
Decline, sale, and post-acquisition era
Adware and spyware
Work in the People's Republic of China
Closing of user-created chat rooms, message boards, and profiles (2005)
Image search
Shark fin controversy
GeoCities closure
Tenure of Marissa Mayer (July 2012 - June 2017)
Acquisitions by parent company Yahoo Inc.
Sale to Verizon
Post-Verizon era
Illegal access of user accounts by former Yahoo engineer
Data breaches
Partners and sponsorships
See also
References
External links

Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. However, its use declined in the 2010s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google.