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 investment funds managed by Apollo Global Man ...

is a web services provider jointly by Apollo Global Management and Verizon Communications, and known for its web portal, search engine, and related services. Yahoo may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* Yahoo (''Gulliver's Travels''), creatures found in the book ''Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift * Yahoo, the name of the fictitious country which is the setting for Bertolt Brecht's 1936 play ''

Round Heads and Pointed Heads ''Round Heads and Pointed Heads'' (german: Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe) is an epic parable play written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin, Emil Burri, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and the composer Han ...

'' *

Yahoo (band) Yahoo is a Brazilian rock band formed in 1988. History Yahoo was founded in 1988 by guitarist Robertinho do Recife. It was fairly successful in Brazil during the 1990s by playing cover versions of other bands' hard rock songs translated to P ...

, a Brazilian rock band * Yahoo! (song), a song from the 1988 album '' The Innocents'' by Erasure * ''Yahoo'' (album), an Afghan album by

Farhad Darya Farhad Darya (Pashto/Dari: ; born 22 September 1962) is an Afghan singer, composer and music producer who has written and composed songs in various languages. Darya sings in various languages including mostly his native language of Persian/D ...

Yahoo Serious Yahoo Serious (born Greg Gomez Pead; 27 July 1953) is an Australian film actor, director, and score composer. His films include the comedy films ''Young Einstein'' (1988), '' Reckless Kelly'' (1993), and '' Mr. Accident'' (2000). Serious writes ...

(born Greg Pead 1953), Australian filmmaker

Animals

Yahoo (bird) The grey-crowned babbler (''Pomatostomus temporalis'') is a species of bird in the family Pomatostomidae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist low ...

, a popular name for the grey-crowned babbler *

Yahoo (horse) Yahoo (foaled 1981) was a National Hunt racehorse, who is best remembered for finishing second in the 1989 Cheltenham Gold Cup to Desert Orchid. Yahoo was successful on the amateur Point-to-Point circuit, winning at least eleven races. His big ...

, a successful National Hunt racehorse

Other uses

Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present) The second incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational technology company that focuses on media and online business. The current incarnation of the company was formed in 2017. Verizon Communications acquired AOL in 2015, and later ...

, American technology company, parent company of the Yahoo! portal and the current incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. *

Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017) The original incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was on ...

, the owner of Yahoo! until 2017 and the original incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. *

Yahoo Falls Historic Yahoo Falls, also known as Ywahoo Falls (possibly of Muscogee origin, from ''Yahola'', ''Yahoo'' Creek & ''Waho''o in northeast Georgia), is located in Whitley City, McCreary County, Kentucky. Description A Scenic overlook marks the tra ...

, Kentucky, a historic waterfall *

Yahoo Software Yahoo Software was an early developer of computer software. During the 1980s, Yahoo Software created the games which were bundled with the early line of Kaypro "luggable" computers. These games include ''Ladder'', ''CatChum'', ''Aliens'' and ...

, an American company unrelated to the internet content provider *

Altaba Altaba Inc. was a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company based in New York City that was formed from the remains of the first incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. after Verizon acquired old Yahoo's Internet business. Verizon completed i ...

, the remainder and direct legal successor of the original iteration of "Yahoo! Inc." company after selling off their Internet business and brand *

Yahoo! Japan is a Japanese internet company originally formed as a joint venture between the American internet company Yahoo! (later divested by Verizon into Altaba) and the Japanese company SoftBank. It is headquartered at Kioi Tower in the Tokyo Garden Terr ...

* Yahoo boy, a nickname for a Nigerian 419 scammer * A Ku Klux Klan term used in its tribunal organisations {{Disambiguation