Yahoo!, once one of the most popular web sites in the United States, is as of September 2021 a content sub-division of the namesake company

Yahoo Inc. Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) 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 Manag ...

, owned by

Apollo Global Management Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American global private-equity firm. It provides investment management and invests in credit, private equity, and real assets. As of March 31, 2022, the company had $512 billion of assets under management, ...

(90%) and Verizon Communications (10%). It has offered a wide range of online sites and services since its inception in 1994, a majority of which are now defunct.

Current Yahoo! services

Yahoo offers a multi-lingual interface available in over 20 languages:
Yahoo International
'. Yahoo! Japan is a separate entity, controlled by SoftBank. Yahoo!Xtra, launched in 2007 in New Zealand is owned by Yahoo!7, a joint venture between Yahoo! and the Seven Network. * Yahoo!

home page A home page (or homepage) is the main web page of a website. The term may also refer to the start page shown in a web browser when the application first opens. Usually, the home page is located at the root of the website's domain or subdomain ...

* My Yahoo! - Enables users to combine their favorite Yahoo features, content feeds, and information onto a single page. *

Yahoo! Auctions Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay. There are currently only two localizations of the service active iTaiwananJapan Yahoo! has already discontinued the service in the United State ...

- discontinued in 2007 except for Taiwan and Japan. * Yahoo! Developer Network * Yahoo! Entertainment * Yahoo! Finance * Yahoo! Lifestyle * Yahoo! Mail * Yahoo! Movies * Yahoo! Native - formerly known as Yahoo! Advertising, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Yahoo! Gemini, it provides online advertising services. * Yahoo! News * Yahoo! Plus - a collection of individual subscriptions: Yahoo! Mail Plus, Yahoo! Finance Plus, Yahoo! Fantasy Plus, Yahoo! Plus Protect Home, Yahoo! Plus Protect Mobile, Yahoo! Plus Secure and Yahoo! Plus Support * Yahoo! Research * Yahoo! Search * Yahoo! Shopping - a price comparison service * Yahoo! Smart TV * Yahoo! Sports * Yahoo! Weather * Rivals.com

Defunct Yahoo! services

* Yahoo! 360° - A

social networking service A social networking service or SNS (sometimes called a social networking site) is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, act ...

and blog host; launched in March 2005 and shut down in 2009. Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam's was shut down in 2012. * Yahoo! Accessibility Lab - Improved access to the Internet for the disabled community. *

AdInterax Yahoo!, once one of the most popular web sites in the United States, is as of September 2021 a content sub-division of the namesake company Yahoo (2017–present), Yahoo Inc., owned by Apollo Global Management (90%) and Verizon Communications (10%) ...

- An online advertising company acquired in October 2006. * Yahoo! Answers - A community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) website discontinued in May 2021. * APT from Yahoo! - An online advertising platform launched in September 2008. * Arthas.com - An e-commerce payment system; acquired on March 23, 2000. * Astrid - A task management application for

Android Android may refer to: Science and technology * Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human * Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system ** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...

; acquired in May 2013 and shut down on August 5, 2013. *

Ask Yahoo! Yahoo! Answers was a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) website or knowledge market owned by Yahoo! where users would ask questions and answer those submitted by others, and upvote them to increase their visibility. Questions were orga ...

- A Q&A platform that was shut down in March 2006 due to the release of Yahoo! Answers. On May 16, 2013, a new version of Ask Yahoo was launched. *

Yahoo! Assistant Yahoo Assistant, formerly named 3721 Internet Assistant, is a Browser Helper Object for Internet Explorer developed by Beijing 3721 Technology Co. Ltd, and was renamed to Yahoo Assistant after Beijing 3721 Technology was acquired by Yahoo. 3721 Int ...

- A

browser helper object A Browser Helper Object (BHO) is a DLL module designed as a plugin for the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser to provide added functionality. BHOs were introduced in October 1997 with the release of version 4 of Internet Explorer. Most BH ...

that blocks pop-up ads for Internet Explorer developed by Beijing 3721 Technology, which was acquired in 2004. * Yahoo! Autos - A car buying and

search engine A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...

with content from autoblog.com; shut down in 2016. * Yahoo! Avatars - Allowed users to create avatars for display on

Yahoo Messenger Yahoo! Messenger (sometimes abbreviated Y!M) was an advertisement-supported instant messaging client (computing), client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger was provided free of charge and could be downloaded and used wit ...

and Yahoo! Answers; shut down on April 1, 2013. * Yahoo! Aviate - Provided contextually relevant information on Android home screens; it was acquired in 2014 and shut down on March 8, 2018. *

Yahoo! Axis Yahoo Axis was a desktop web browser extension and mobile browser for iOS devices created and developed by Yahoo. History The browser made its public debut on May 23, 2012. A copy of the private key used to sign official Yahoo browser extensio ...

- A

browser extension A browser extension is a small software module for customizing a web browser. Browsers typically allow a variety of extensions, including user interface modifications, cookie management, ad blocking, and the custom scripting and styling of web p ...

and mobile browser launched in May 2012 and discontinued June 28, 2013. *

Yahoo! Babel Fish Yahoo! Babel Fish was a free Web-based multilingual translation application. In May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator (now Microsoft Translator), to which queries were redirected. Although Yahoo! has transitioned its Babel Fish translation s ...

- A translation service; shut down in May 2012 and replaced by

Bing Translator Microsoft Translator is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Microsoft. Microsoft Translator is a part of Microsoft Cognitive Services and integrated across multiple consumer, developer, and enterprise products; including B ...

. *

Bix Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical app ...

- A website that provided tools for the creation of contests; acquired by Yahoo on November 16, 2006 and shut down on June 30, 2009. * blo.gs - A directory of blogs; acquired in June 2005 and sold to Automattic, parent of WordPress.com in April 2009. *

Yahoo! Briefcase Yahoo! Briefcase was an online file storage service offer by Yahoo!, providing 30MB of online storage of files, including photo files, etc. up to 5MB. In 2001 up to 50 megs of photo storage/sharing alone was offered—this was in addition to the ...

- A free

file hosting service A file-hosting service, cloud-storage service, online file-storage provider, or cyberlocker is an internet hosting service specifically designed to host user files. It allows users to upload files that could be accessed over the internet afte ...

; shut down on March 30, 2009. * Yahoo! Buzz - A community-based news article service that allowed users to publish news stories; shut down on April 21, 2011. MyBlogLog was discontinued on May 24, 2011. * Yahoo! China shut down on September 2, 2013 and was redirected to taobao.com. * Y!Connect - Enabled individuals to leave comments in Internet forums via their Yahoo ID. * del.icio.us - A social bookmarking website; acquired on December 9, 2005 and sold to

AVOS MixBit was a video sharing service created by Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, two of the co-founders of YouTube. It was released on August 8, 2013. MixBit let users create dynamic shared videos, and competed with Vine (owned by Twitter) and Instag ...

, owned by YouTube founders

Chad Hurley Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American webmaster and businessman who serves as the advisor and former chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube. He also co-founded MixBit. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "5 ...

and

Steve Chen Steve Chen (; born August 25, 1978) is a Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur who is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube. After having co-founded the company AVOS Systems, Inc. a ...

, on April 27, 2011. * Yahoo! Directory - A web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size and was the first product by Yahoo!; shut down in December 2014. *

Fire Eagle Fire Eagle was a Yahoo! owned service that stores a user's location and shares it with other authorized services. It was created at Yahoo! Brickhouse by a team which included among others Evan Henshaw-Plath, Tom Coates, Simon Willison, Jeannie H. ...

- A location brokerage service created by Yahoo Brickhouse; launched in March 2008. *

FoxyTunes FoxyTunes was a browser extension allowing control of media players from the web browser window. The company that developed FoxyTunes was bought by Yahoo! in 2008, and FoxyTunes was closed in 2013. History In 2004 computer science graduate stu ...

- A

that allowed users to control media players from the browser window; shut down on July 1, 2013. *

Yahoo! Gallery Yahoo! Gallery was a service from Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) 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 inve ...

- A directory of application software built by third-party developers using Yahoo! technologies; shut down on July 14, 2009. * Yahoo! Games - Allowed users to play games, such as chess, billiards, checkers and backgammon; launched upon acquisition of ClassicGames.com in 1997, shut down in 2016. *

Yahoo! GeoCities Yahoo! GeoCities was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest. GeoCities was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and w ...

was a popular web hosting service founded in 1995 and was one of the first services to offer web pages to the public. In 1998, it was the third-most-browsed website. Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 and shut it down in 2009, deleting 7 million web pages. Many of those web pages are available at mirror sites such as the Internet Archive and OOCities.org. * Yahoo! GeoPlanet - Offered geographic information services both directly and via third-party applications; shut down in August 2016. * Yahoo! Go - A Java based phone application with access to most of Yahoo! services; shut down on January 12, 2010. *

Yahoo! Green Yahoo! Green was a website created by Yahoo! that gathered news, ideas, and discussion about ways to promote an environmentally conscious lifestyle. It included numerous ideas on conserving natural resources and limiting consumption and waste. S ...

- News, ideas, and discussion about ways to promote an environmentally conscious lifestyle; shut down in 2012. * Yahoo! Greetings - An e-card service. Redirected to American Greetings. * Yahoo! Groups - One of the largest collections of online discussion boards; shut down on December 15, 2020. * Yahoo! Homes - Offered Real estate-related news, home prices. * Yahoo! HotJobs - An employment website; acquired by

Monster.com Monster.com is a global employment website owned and operated by Monster Worldwide, Inc. It was created in 1999 through the merger of The Monster Board (TMB) and Online Career Centre (OCC). It is a subsidiary of Randstad Holding, a Dutch mult ...

for $225 million in 2010. * IntoNow from Yahoo! - Gave users the ability to almost instantly recognize TV content; acquired in Spring 2011 and shut down in March 2014. * Yahoo! Indonesia - the Indonesian affiliate of Yahoo!, founded in 2010. Its headquarters was

Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...

, Indonesia. * Jumpcut.com - A service where the uploaded photos and videos can be edited online; shut down in June 2009. * Kelkoo Group - A European price comparison tool that was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004 and sold in 2008. * Yahoo! Korea was the South Korean affiliate of Yahoo!, founded in September 1997. Its headquarters was the Yahoo! Tower on

Teheranno Teheran-ro (translation "Tehran Boulevard") is a street in the Gangnam district of Seoul, South Korea. It runs from Gangnam Station through Yeoksam-dong and into Samseong-dong. It is colloquially known as "Teheran Valley" (after Silicon Valley ...

in the Gangnam District of Seoul. On December 31, 2012, Yahoo! Korea shut down all its services and the website was redirected to the main Yahoo! search page. *

Koprol Koprol, since 25 May 2010 called Yahoo Koprol, was an Indonesian social networking service, allowing users to connect based on location. Mobile users can use the site as a positioning service, without the need for a GPS receiver. Once logged in, ...

- An Indonesian

, allowing users to connect based on location. Shut down in August 2012. * Yahoo! Kickstart - A professional network targeting college students, recent grads, employers, professionals, and alumni. Shut down in December 2008. *

Yahoo! Kids Yahoo! Kids (known as Yahoo!きっず in Japan) is a public web portal provided by Yahoo! Japan to find age appropriate online content for children between the ages of 4 and 12. This site was formerly available in English via Yahoo!, where it w ...

- A children's version of the Yahoo! portal, it offered online safety tips and parental controls; shut down in April 2013 due to declining popularity. * Yahoo! Live - Allowed users to broadcast videos in real time; shut down on December 3, 2008. *

Yahoo! Maktoob Maktoob ( ar, مكتوب) was an online services company founded in Amman (Jordan). Maktoob.com was known for being the first Arabic/English email service provider. In 2009, Yahoo! acquired Maktoob.com, thus turning Maktoob into Yahoo!'s official ...

- A pan-regional, Arabic-language hosting and

acquired by Yahoo! on August 25, 2009; shut down on October 28, 2022. * Yahoo! Maps - Online mapping portal; shut down on June 30, 2015. *

Yahoo! Mash Yahoo! Mash was a social networking service by Yahoo! Yahoo! Mash pages were composed of modules, such as photos or common friends, that could be added by their users or their contacts. Unless the feature was disabled, users were able to edit oth ...

- A

that allowed other users to edit any page; shut down on September 28, 2008. * Yahoo! Media Player / Web Player - A computer based media player that was based on Microsoft's Windows Media Player and was similar to other competing media players such as

MusicMatch MusicMatch Jukebox was an audio player made by San Diego-based MusicMatch, Inc. It contained features commonly found in jukebox software such as the ability to manage digital audio files and playlists, audio file conversion, an online music sto ...

or Winamp. * Yahoo! Meme - A beta

, similar to Twitter; shut down on May 25, 2012. * Yahoo! Messenger - An instant messaging app; shut down on July 17, 2018. * Yahoo! Mobile - Former carrier in the United States; shut down on August 31, 2021. * Yahoo! Music - Provided Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming; shut down in September 2018 and consolidated into Yahoo! Entertainment's "Music" section. *

Yahoo! Music Unlimited Yahoo! Music Unlimited was an on-demand online music service launched on May 10, 2005 and provided by Yahoo! Music. The service was discontinued on September 30, 2008. Service Users paid a subscription fee to access a library of over two millio ...

and

Yahoo! Music Jukebox Yahoo! Music Jukebox, formerly known as Yahoo! Music Engine, was a freeware music player released by Yahoo! in 2005 to compete with iTunes and Rhapsody in the digital music market. Developed side-by-side with MusicMatch Jukebox, another music play ...

- Acquired from MusicMatch; sold to

Rhapsody Rhapsody may refer to: * A work of epic poetry, or part of one, that is suitable for recitation at one time ** Rhapsode, a classical Greek professional performer of epic poetry Computer software * Rhapsody (online music service), an online m ...

on October 31, 2008. * Yahoo! Next - An incubation ground for future Yahoo technologies. * Yahoo! OMG - An online tabloid with most content provided by Access Hollywood and X17; shut down on January 6, 2014. * Panama - An online advertising platform. * Yahoo! Personals - An online dating service with both free and paid versions; shut down in July 2010. *

Yahoo! Photos Yahoo! Photos was a photo sharing service launched on March 28, 2000 and owned by Yahoo!, designed specifically for Yahoo! users. Users created individual photo albums, categorized their photos and placed them in the corresponding albums. Users ...

- A photo sharing service similar to Flickr, which Yahoo acquired; shut down on September 20, 2007. *

Yahoo! Pipes Yahoo! Pipes was a web application from Yahoo! that provided a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services; creating Web-based apps from various sources; and publishing those apps. ...

- A free

RSS RSS ( RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many di ...

mashup visual editor and hosting service; shut down on September 30, 2015. * Yahoo! Podcasts - A

beta Beta (, ; uppercase , lowercase , or cursive ; grc, βῆτα, bē̂ta or ell, βήτα, víta) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 2. In Modern Greek, it represents the voiced labiod ...

service that allowed users to search for and view podcasts; discontinued in November 2007. * Yahoo! Profile / Yahoo Pulse - A directory of Yahoo users with their personal information. *

Yahoo! Publisher Network The Yahoo! Publisher Network (abbreviated YPN) was an advertising network launched on August 2, 2005 by Yahoo! and effectively closed on April 30, 2010. The service only accepted US-Based publishers. YPN provided cost per click contextual advertisin ...

- An advertising network that only accepted US based publishers; shut down on April 30, 2010. * Rocketmail - An email service acquired in 1997. Shut down but users were able to use an @rocketmail.com email address. *

Yahoo! Screen The company Yahoo! ran several similar video services. Yahoo! Video, a video hosting service, was established in 2006. Later, the ability to upload videos was removed, changing it to a more pure video on demand service; the website became a port ...

(formerly Yahoo! Video) - A

video sharing website An online video platform (OVP), provided by a video hosting service, enables users to upload, convert, store and play back video content on the Internet, often via a structured, large-scale system that may generate revenue. Users will generally u ...

; shut down in January 2016. *

Yahoo! Search BOSS Yahoo Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) was a Yahoo! Developer Network initiative to provide an open search web services platform. Yahoo discontinued BOSS JSON Search API, BOSS Placefinder API, BOSS Placespotter API and as well BOSS Hos ...

- A service that allowed developers to build search applications based on Yahoo's search technology. * 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 part of the Microsoft and Yahoo search partnership. * Shine - A site tailored for women between the ages of 25 and 54. Launched On March 31, 2008. It was shut down in 2014. * Yahoo! Site Explorer - Allowed users to view information on websites in Yahoo!'s search index; shut down on November 21, 2011. * Yahoo! Small Business - A service offered by the Yahoo! to get users start up and expand their business online; rebranded as Verizon Small Business Essentials in 2021. * Yahoo! Smush.it - Optimized

digital images A digital image is an image composed of picture elements, also known as ''pixels'', each with ''finite'', '' discrete quantities'' of numeric representation for its intensity or gray level that is an output from its two-dimensional functions f ...

by removing unnecessary bytes and reducing

file size File size is a measure of how much data a computer file contains or, alternately, how much storage it consumes. Typically, file size is expressed in units of measurement based on the byte. By convention, file size units use either a metric prefix ...

; shut down in April 2015. *

Yahoo! Tech Yahoo! Tech is a technology news web site operated by Yahoo!. Former Yahoo! Tech The site, which was the first new product from the Santa Monica, California-based Yahoo! Media Group, featured a selection of original, licensed, and user-generated ...

- Offered reviews and advice for buying and using electronics; integrated into Yahoo News in 2016. * Yahoo! Transliteration - An online translator. *

Yahoo! Travel Yahoo! Travel was a website operated by Yahoo! that offered guide books, daily articles, and travel booking services. History The site was launched in 1997. In May 2007, additional features were added. In January 2014, it was the 9th-largest tr ...

- A travel-booking website; shut down in February 2016. * Upcoming - A social event calendar acquired in October 2005; shut down in April 2013. *

Yahoo! Widgets Yahoo Widgets is a discontinued free application platform for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, specifically Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. The software was previously called Konfabulator, but after being acquired by computer services company Yah ...

- A cross-platform desktop widget runtime environment; shut down in March 2012. * Yahoo! Web Analytics - Web analytics tools; formerly IndexTools was acquired by Yahoo! in 2008 and re-branded; discontinued in 2012. * Wretch - A Taiwanese

acquired by Yahoo in July 2007; shut down in December 2013. *

Yahoo! Voice Yahoo Voice was a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC telecommunications service. It was provided by Yahoo via its Yahoo Messenger instant messaging application. Yahoo Voice used the Session Initiation Protocol ...

- A Voice over IP service formerly known as Dialpad; shut down on January 30, 2013. *

Yahoo! Voices Yahoo! Voices, formerly Associated Content (AC), was a division of Yahoo! that focused on online publishing. Yahoo! Voices distributed a large variety of writing through its website and content partners, including Yahoo! News. In early December 20 ...

- Formerly Associated Content (AC), distributed writing through its website and content partners, including Yahoo! News; shut down July 31, 2014.

References

{{Yahoo, Inc. * Yahoo! Yahoo!