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Yahoo! Toolbar is a browser plugin. It is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. Yahoo! Toolbar has been around for more than 10 years and has evolved since its inception. Originally aimed at being a bookmark and pop-up blocker, it evolved to provide an app-like experience within the Toolbar.
Babel Fish was a free Web-based machine translation service by Yahoo!. In May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator (now Microsoft Translator ), to which queries were redirected. [ 1 ] Although Yahoo! has transitioned its Babel Fish translation services to Bing Translator, it did not sell its translation application to Microsoft outright.
A browser toolbar is a toolbar that resides within a browser's window. All major web browsers provide support to browser toolbar development as a way to extend the browser's GUI and functionality. Browser toolbars are considered to be a particular kind of browser extensions that present a toolbar. Browser toolbars are specific to each browser ...
Starting with Google Chrome 4.1, the application added a built-in translation bar using Google Translate. Language translation is currently available for 52 languages. [78] When Chrome detects a foreign language other than the user's preferred language set during the installation time, it asks the user whether or not to translate.
Web browsing history refers to the list of web pages a user has visited, as well as associated metadata such as page title and time of visit. It is usually stored locally by web browsers [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in order to provide the user with a history list to go back to previously visited pages.
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.
In 2005, Yahoo began to provide links to previous versions of pages archived on the Wayback Machine. [19] In the first week of May 2008, Yahoo launched a new search paradigm called Yahoo Glue. [20] [21] Yahoo! Search was criticized in 2020 for favoring websites owned by Yahoo!'s then-parent company, Verizon Media, in its search results. [22]
December 1, 2005: TiVo and Yahoo! form a partnership where several Yahoo! features can be viewed on television via the Series2 TiVo set top box. [ 53 ] December 8 (U.S. time), 9 (Australian time), 2005: Australia's Seven Network combines its online, mobile and internet TV business with the local arm of Yahoo! and the commencement of Yahoo!7 is ...