Yahoo Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, an ...

is a web services portal. 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'' * Yahoo (band), 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, music producer, and philanthropist. Active since the 1980s, Darya has been one of the most renowned and influential Afghan pop musicians of the modern era, contr ...

* "Yahoo" or "Chahe Koi Mujhe Junglee Kahe", a song by Shankar-Jaikishan and Muhammad Rafi from the 1959 Indian film ''Junglee'' *

Yahoo Serious Yahoo Serious (born Greg Pead, 27 July 1953) is an Australian actor. His films include the comedy films ''Young Einstein'' (1988), '' Reckless Kelly'' (1993), and ''Mr. Accident'' (2000). Serious writes, directs, produces, stars in, and has co ...

(born Greg Pead 1953), Australian filmmaker

Animals

* Yahoo (bird), a popular name for the grey-crowned babbler * Yahoo (horse), a successful National Hunt racehorse

Companies

Yahoo Software Kaypro Corporation was an American home and personal computer manufacturer based in Solana Beach, California, in the 1980s. The company was founded by Non-Linear Systems (NLS) to compete with the popular Osborne 1 portable microcomputer. Kaypro ...

, 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 had acquired old Yahoo's Internet business. Verizon complet ...

, 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 web portal. It was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. According to ''The Japan Times'', as of 2012, Yahoo! Japan had a footprint on the internet market in Japan. In terms of use as a search engine, ...

Yahoo! Inc.

* Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017), the owner of Yahoo! until 2017 and the original incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. *

Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present) Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational technology company that focuses on media and online business. It is the second and current incarnation of the company, after Verizon Communications merged Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017), the original Yahoo ...

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

Other uses

* Yahoo Falls, Kentucky, a historic waterfall * Yahoo boy, a nickname for a Nigerian 419 scammer * A Ku Klux Klan term used in its tribunal organisations * A monster in Aboriginal Australian mythology, possibly the basis for the cryptid

Yowie The Yowie is one of several names for an Australian folklore entity that is reputed to live in the Outback. The creature has origins in Aboriginal oral history. Etymology and Regional Names * In parts of Queensland, it is known as a ''Quinki ...

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