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Various applications and tools exist or could exist to handle and search biographical data. Personensuche is a toolserver application developed for the German Wikipedia that provides a search for biographical articles on the German Wikipedia. Persons can be searched by name, gender, dates and locations of birth and death, description and ...
On November 30, 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo!'s search business for $20 billion. [72] On July 29, 2009, a 10-year deal was announced giving Microsoft full access to Yahoo!'s search engine to be used in future Microsoft projects in its Bing search engine. [73] Under the deal, Microsoft was not required to pay any cash up front to Yahoo!.
In February 2008, Microsoft made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion; at the time Yahoo! was still struggling to catch up to Google, while Microsoft was still seeking an internet search strategy. [28] The offer was a 62% premium to Yahoo!'s market value at the time. [4]
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!
Yahoo Search BOSS is a service that allows developers to build search applications based on Yahoo's search technology. [99] Early Partners in the program include Hakia, Me.dium, Delver, Daylife and Yebol. [100] In early 2011, the program switched to a paid model using a cost-per-query model from $0.40 to $0.75 CPM (cost per 1000 BOSS queries).
David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang.His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.
This category is intended for use in biographical entries which indicate the individual's year of death, but not the month and day, due to lack of research, availability in a reliable source or notation in the relevant article.
March 1, 2004: Yahoo announces that it will practice paid inclusion for its search service; however, it also announced that it would continue to rely mainly on a free web crawl for most of its search engine content. [30] March 25, 2004: Yahoo acquires the European shopping search engine Kelkoo. [31] July 9, 2004: Yahoo acquires email provider ...