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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.
Yahoo (/ ˈ j ɑː h uː / ⓘ, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] 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 and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native. It is operated by the namesake company Yahoo!
The Yahoo! Personals editions were designed in local languages. Contacting a member through Yahoo! Personals required a paid subscription to Yahoo! Personals. Yahoo! Personals ceased operations on July 21, 2010.
The attack specifically targeted Yahoo Voice, formerly known as Associated Content, which Yahoo had acquired in May 2010 for $100 million (£64.5 million). Using SQL injection techniques, the hackers were able to extract the data from Yahoo's servers and subsequently post the compromised information publicly online. [1] [2] [3] [4]
[5] The yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995. [6] Yahoo! grew rapidly through 1990–1999 and diversified into a web portal, followed by numerous high-profile acquisitions. The company's stock price rose rapidly during the dot-com bubble and closed at an all-time high of US$118.75 in 2000. [7]
February 5, 2007: Yahoo launches a new search advertising system, Panama. [64] March 1, 2007: Localised New Zealand internet portal Yahoo!Xtra launches. [65] March 2007: Yahoo! acquires Taiwan blogging site wretch.cc. [66] April 30, 2007: Yahoo! announces acquisition of Right Media. [67] June 16, 2007: Yahoo! officially retires the Yahoo!
Yahoo! Site Explorer ( YSE ) was a Yahoo! service which allowed users to view information on websites in Yahoo!'s search index. The service was closed on November 21, 2011, and merged with Bing Webmaster Tools , a tool similar to Google Search Console (previously Google Webmaster Tools). [ 1 ]
Sherpa is a cloud storage platform developed by Yahoo!.It is a hosted, distributed, and geographically replicated key-value data store. [1] The service is a NoSQL system that address the scalability, availability, and latency needs of the conglomerate's websites.