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The main Yahoo! Maps site offered street maps and driving directions for the United States and Canada. It had the following notable features: Address Book: Registered Yahoo! users can store a list of commonly used street addresses, making it unnecessary to type them in again.
New search engine: Yahoo! Search is launched. It is a search function that allows users to search Yahoo! Directory. [20] [21] It becomes the first popular search engine on the Web. [19] However, it is not a true Web crawler search engine. New search engine: Search.ch is launched. It is a search engine and web portal for Switzerland. [22] New ...
Search BOSS – A service that allowed developers to build search applications based on Yahoo's search technology. [63] Yahoo! SearchMonkey – Allowed developers and site owners to use structured data to make Yahoo Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites; shut down in October 2010 as ...
Yahoo! Maps (defunct) Yandex Maps; By continent Africa. Africomaps - Covers all 54 countries in the African continent; Europe. ViaMichelin (based on TomTom) Local online maps. Local maps cover only part of the earth surface, and may be more detailed than the global ones. Abkhazia. 2GIS, by 2GIS. Australia
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 ...
AltaVista was a web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine.
February 19, 2004: Yahoo! drops Google-powered results and launches its own web-crawling algorithm with its own site index. [30] 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]