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Yahoo (/ ˈ j ɑː h uː / ⓘ, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] is an American web services portal. The web portal provides search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native. It is operated by the namesake company Yahoo!
The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering and started in 1994 under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. [1] When Yahoo! changed its main results to crawler-based listings under Yahoo! Search in October 2002, the human-edited directory's significance dropped, but it was still being updated as of August 19, 2014. [2]
Yahoo! Search page in 2008. In July 2008, Yahoo! Search announced the introduction of a new service called Yahoo! Search BOSS ("Build your Own Search Service"). This service opens the doors for developers to use Yahoo!'s system for indexing information and images and create their own custom search engine. [9]
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.
Some accounts also supported the use of standard mail protocols (POP3 and SMTP). Since 2015, users can also connect non-Yahoo e-mail accounts to the webmail client. [5] New Yahoo! Mail accounts, and most of the service's accounts, use yahoo.com as the email suffix.
In October 2019, Yahoo! announced that all content that had been posted to Yahoo! Groups will be deleted on December 14, 2019; [9] that date was later amended to January 31, 2020. [10] Yahoo! announced that adding new content would be blocked on October 28, 2019. [11] [12] Once the content was deleted, users of Yahoo!
With millions of people living in the U.S.A., it’s often challenging to find a school friend you are no longer in touch with or a family member whose contact information you lost years ago.