Yahoo

This article is about the web portal. For the company, see Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present). For the now-unaffiliated Japanese company, see Yahoo Japan. For other uses, see Yahoo (disambiguation).

Yahoo
Logo used since 2019
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
Web portal and online services
FoundedJanuary 1994; 30 years ago (1994-01)
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California
,
United States
Area servedWorldwide
Owners
Founder(s)
ProductsList of products
Revenue$7.4 billion (2020)[1]
Employees8,600 (2017)[2]
Parent
URLyahoo.com Edit this at Wikidata
AdvertisingYahoo Ad Tech[3]
RegistrationOptional
Current statusActive

Yahoo (/ˈjɑːhuː/, styled yahoo! in its logo)[4][5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon.

It provides a web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native.

Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.[6] However, its use declined in the 2010s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google.[7][8]

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  2. ^ "Verizon Communications, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Jul 27, 2017" (PDF). secdatabase.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 2, 2018. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  3. ^ Lepitak, Stephen (February 3, 2022). "Yahoo Targets Ad Tech Momentum with Spate of Exec Promotions". AdWeek. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
  4. ^ Yahoo Commercial 2006 on YouTube
  5. ^ Yahoo 'Flashing Lights' Commercial (1080p) on YouTube
  6. ^ "Yahoo's Sale to Verizon Ends an Era for a Web Pioneer". The New York Times. July 25, 2016. Archived from the original on February 16, 2017. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  7. ^ McGoogan, Cara (July 25, 2016). "Yahoo: 9 reasons for the internet icon's decline". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on April 17, 2018. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  8. ^ "The Glory That Was Yahoo". March 21, 2018. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2019.