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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!.
Starting on April 7, 2003, Yahoo! Search became its own web crawler-based search engine. [8] They combined the capabilities of search engine companies they had acquired and their prior research into a reinvented crawler called Yahoo!. The new search engine results were included in all of Yahoo's websites that had a web search function.
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.
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 ...
Jerry Yang and David Filo co-founded Yahoo! in 1994. Yang took the title of CEO before the company came public in 1996. It was a hot stock, for a while, and then it struggled to compete against ...
SoftBank billionaire Masayoshi Son has pledged to invest $100 billion in the US over the next four years. Masa's longtime friend and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang weighs in on the pledge.
Yahoo Axis is a desktop web browser extension and mobile browser for iOS devices created and developed by Yahoo. The browser made its public debut on May 23, 2012. [104] A copy of the private key used to sign official Yahoo browser extensions for Google Chrome was accidentally leaked in the first public release of the Chrome extension. [105]
Yahoo! is rumored to be planning a return to the search market, currently dominated by Google . Yahoo! is said to be working on two projects that will allow the company have its own search engine.