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Reddit (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ t / ⓘ) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members.
Yahoo!, once one of the most popular web sites in the United States, is as of September 2021 a content sub-division of the namesake company Yahoo Inc., owned by Apollo Global Management (90%) and Verizon Communications (10%). It has offered a wide range of online sites and services since its inception in 1994, a majority of which are now defunct.
By 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting point for web users, [26] and the human-edited Yahoo Directory the most popular search engine, [18] receiving 95 million page views per day, triple that of rival Excite. [24] It also made many high-profile acquisitions. Yahoo began offering free e-mail from October 1997 after the acquisition of ...
GeoCities, was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest, active from 1994 to 2009. GeoCities was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and was named Beverly Hills Internet briefly before being renamed GeoCities. [ 1 ]
Geocities was a popular web hosting service founded in 1995 and was one of the first services to offer web pages to the public. At one point it was the third-most-browsed site on the World Wide Web. [107] Yahoo purchased GeoCities in 1999 and ten years later the web host was closed, deleting some seven million web pages. [108]
Yahoo! used comScore statistics in December 2006 to proclaim Yahoo! Answers "the leading Q&A site on the web". [63] At one point [when?] Yahoo! Answers was ranked as the second most popular Q&A site on the web by comScore. [64] [65] The slogan "The world's leading Q&A site" has since been adopted by Answers.com. In 2009, Yahoo!
The Yahoo Clubs section is technically a dead service. Started out as a page devoted to a single subject / interestt, with a section for photos. Members of a club could read and post to the main page. Yahoo has since reformatted it into newsgroups, and renamed it "Yahoo Groups" . Http://Clubs.Yahoo.Com redirects to Yahoo Groups.
Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com , an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire.