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Yahoo! was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates at Stanford University [1] when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
Yahoo! Site Explorer – Allowed users to view information on websites in Yahoo!'s search index; shut down on November 21, 2011. [67] Yahoo! Small Business – A service offered by the Yahoo! to get users start up and expand their business online; rebranded as Verizon Small Business Essentials in 2021. [68] Yahoo!
Yahoo (/ ˈ j ɑː h uː / ⓘ, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] [5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California , and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc. , which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon .
The last UK copies were posted out on 18 January 2019. [31] The Irish publisher of the Golden Pages moved to an online-only model in 2017 after exiting examinership. [32] The equivalent "Independent Directory" (similar to the UK's Thomson Local directories) produced by Independent News & Media ceased publication in 2009. [33]
Intute – directory of websites for study and research. Maintenance stopped in July 2011, archives remain available. LookSmart – operated several vertical directories from 1995 to 2006. Lycos' TOP 5% – from 1995 until 2000 it aimed to list the Web's top 5% of Websites. Yahoo! Directory– first service that Yahoo! offered. Closed in ...
Yahoo holds a 34.75% minority stake in Yahoo Japan, while SoftBank holds 35.45%, [168] Yahoo!Xtra in New Zealand, which Yahoo!7 have 51% of and 49% belongs to Telecom New Zealand, and Yahoo!7 in Australia, which is a 50–50 agreement between Yahoo and the Seven Network. Historically, Yahoo entered into joint venture agreements with SoftBank ...
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.
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]