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 ...

, 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., 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 Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas i ...

(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 Yahoo! Australia (formerly Yahoo7 between 2006 and 2018) is the Australian subsidiary of global internet company Yahoo! Originally a 50/50 joint venture between Yahoo! and Seven West Media, it has been a 100% subsidiary of Verizon Media since ...

, a

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acces ...

between Yahoo! and the

Seven Network The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of ...

. * 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! My Yahoo! is a start page or web portal which combines personalized Yahoo! features, content feeds and information. The site was launched in 1996 and was one of the company's most popular creations. Applications of My Yahoo My Yahoo’s purpose i ...

- 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! Mail is an email service launched on October 8, 1997, by the American company Yahoo (2017–present), Yahoo, Inc. The service is free for personal use, with an optional monthly fee for additional features. Business email was previously av ...

* Yahoo! Movies * Yahoo! Native - formerly known as Yahoo! Advertising, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Yahoo! Gemini, it provides online advertising services. *

Yahoo! News Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. The site was created by a Yahoo! software engineer named Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associate ...

* 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! Search is a Yahoo! internet search provider that uses Microsoft's Microsoft Bing, Bing search engine to power results, since 2009, apart from four years with Google Search, Google until 2019. Originally, "Yahoo! Search" referred to a Yah ...

* Yahoo! Shopping - a price comparison service *

Yahoo! Smart TV Yahoo! Smart TV (formerly ''Yahoo! Connected TV'') was a Smart TV platform developed by Yahoo! based upon the Yahoo! Desktop Widgets (Konfabulator) platform. Yahoo! Connected TV announced on August 20, 2008 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Fra ...

Yahoo! Sports Yahoo! Sports is a sports news website launched by Yahoo! on December 8, 1997. It receives a majority of its information from STATS, Inc. It employs numerous writers, and has team pages for teams in almost every North American major sport. Bef ...

* Yahoo! Weather *

Rivals.com Rivals.com is a network of websites that focus mainly on college football and basketball recruiting in the United States. The network was started in 1998 and employs more than 300 personnel. History Rivals.com was founded in 1998 by Jim Heckma ...

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 A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order ...

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 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 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 - 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 Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical user interface, graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft which was used in the Microsoft Wind ...

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

avatar Avatar (, ; ), is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means "descent". It signifies the material appearance or incarnation of a powerful deity, goddess or spirit on Earth. The relative verb to "alight, to make one's appearanc ...

s 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

; 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 Automattic Inc. is an American global distributed company which was founded in August 2005 and is most notable for WordPress.com (a freemium blogging service), as well as its contributions to WordPress (an open source blogging software). The com ...

- A directory of

s; 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 forum An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporar ...

s via their Yahoo ID. *

del.icio.us Delicious (stylized del.icio.us) was a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter and Peter Gadjokov in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. By the end of 2008, t ...

- 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 YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...

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 The Yahoo! Directory was a web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size. The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering and started in 1994 under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. When Yahoo! changed its main results to c ...

- 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 - A directory of

application software Application may refer to: Mathematics and computing * Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks ** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a c ...

built by third-party developers using Yahoo! technologies; shut down on July 14, 2009. * Yahoo! Games - Allowed users to play games, such as

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

, 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 The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, ...

and OOCities.org. *

Yahoo! GeoPlanet GeoPlanet is a computer platform for coordinating world-wide geographic information, and providing both text and cartographic output, such as digital maps for any location in the world. It provides a location infrastructure for search engines, port ...

- Offered geographic information services both directly and via third-party applications; shut down in August 2016. *

Yahoo! Go Yahoo! Go was a Java-based phone application provided by Yahoo! for users to access the company's products and services via their mobile phones or PDAs. Up till its closure, Yahoo! considered Go as Beta software. Services include sending/receiving ...

- 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 Yahoo! Groups was a free-to-use system of electronic mailing lists offered by Yahoo!. Prior to February 2020, Yahoo! Groups was one of the world's largest collections of online discussion boards. It allowed members to subscribe to various grou ...

- One of the largest collections of online discussion boards; shut down on December 15, 2020. * Yahoo! Homes - Offered

Real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more general ...

-related news, home prices. * Yahoo! HotJobs - An

employment website An employment website is a website that deals specifically with employment or careers. Many employment websites are designed to allow employers to post job requirements for a position to be filled and are commonly known as job boards. Other emplo ...

; 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

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

n affiliate of

, 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 ...

. * 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 Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

n 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 Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...

. On December 31, 2012, Yahoo! Korea shut down all its services and the website was redirected to the main Yahoo! search page. * Koprol - 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 Yahoo! Maps was a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo! Functionality included local weather powered by The Weather Channel, printing maps, and local reviews powered by Yelp. It shut down on June 30, 2015. For a time in 2019, Yahoo! Maps ...

- Online mapping portal; shut down on June 30, 2015. * Yahoo! Mash - 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 Windows Media Player (WMP) is the first media player and media library application that was developed by Microsoft for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on ...

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 ...

Winamp Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014. Sinc ...

. *

Yahoo! Meme Yahoo! Meme was a microblogging site launched by the Yahoo Latin America team in August 2009. The platform was conceived as a mash up of functionality derived from Twitter and Tumblr. Its beta version was originally launched to a Brazilian (Portu ...

- A beta

, similar to

Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...

; shut down on May 25, 2012. * Yahoo! Messenger - An

instant messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network. Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties, when each user inputs text and trigge ...

app; shut down on July 17, 2018. * Yahoo! Mobile - Former carrier in the United States; shut down on August 31, 2021. *

Yahoo! Music Yahoo! Music was a brand under which Yahoo! provided a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming. Previously, users with Yahoo! accounts could gain access to hundreds of ...

- Provided Internet radio,

music video A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a m ...

s, 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 Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...

- An online advertising platform. *

Yahoo! Personals Yahoo! Personals was an online dating service provided by Yahoo!. Features The ''Yahoo! Personals'' editions were designed in local languages. Contacting a member through ''Yahoo! Personals'' required a paid subscription to Yahoo! Personals.http: ...

- 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

podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing ...

s; 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 RocketMail was one of the first major free webmail services. The service was originally a product of Four11 Corporation. For a brief time, RocketMail battled with Hotmail for the number-one spot among free webmail services. Four11, including R ...

- 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 Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

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 The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

; 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 Web analytics is the measurement, data collection, collection, analysis, and reporting of web Data (computing), data to understand and optimize web usage. Web analytics is not just a process for measuring web traffic but can be used as a tool fo ...

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 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of speech, voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms In ...

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

; shut down July 31, 2014.

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