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Yahoo!
hideYahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), office productivity, video sharing (Yahoo! Video), and social media websites and services.
Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.
On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairperson of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.
According to Web traffic analysis companies (including Compete.com, comScore, Alexa Internet, Netcraft, and Nielsen Ratings), the domain yahoo.com attracted at least 1.575 billion visitors annually by 2008. The global network of Yahoo! websites receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2007[update]. It is the second most visited website in the U.S., and in the world.
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News tagged with yahoo
Google refines search results to counter Microsoft
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving Web surfers a few more ways to refine their search results, signaling its resolve to ward off rival Microsoft Corp.'s aggressive campaign to lure traffic.
Microsoft, Yahoo team up to ding Google with Bing
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has finally roped Yahoo Inc. into an Internet search partnership, capping a convoluted pursuit that dragged on for years and finally setting the stage for them to make a joint assault ...
Google co-founder Brin prefers Yahoo! without Bing
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed amazement at resistance to the Internet giant's efforts to digitize the world's books and lamented a deal to have Microsoft handle online search at Yahoo!
Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon to fight Google book deal
Aug 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The fight against a legal settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of copyrighted books is starting to resemble a heavyweight brawl in the library.
Yahoo wins round in Oregon nude photo court battle
May 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo has won a legal battle over removing nude photos that an Oregon woman claimed her boyfriend posted on its Web site without her knowledge or permission.
Yahoo is Going Portuguese Hound to Outwit Twitter
May 15, 2009 |
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Brazil, a Portuguese speaking country is the 10th largest economy in the world and Yahoo has decided to get in on the action by coming up with a clone Twitter. The economic down-turn has affected Brazil to ...
Bing search makes porn easy to filter out
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Microsoft says it has adjusted its freshly-launched Bing search engine to make it easier to filter out porn.
Review: Yahoo's shift to Bing could be risky bet
Jul 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Is Microsoft's Bing really a better search engine? Since it debuted last month, it has earned praise for the smart way it presents results and how it lets users preview Web sites without clicking ...
Bing rings up search gains, dinging Google, Yahoo
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s souped-up Internet search engine gained a little more ground on industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in July, according to data released late Monday.
Google unfazed by 3 US government inquiries
Jun 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. doesn't believe it needs to change its ways despite three separate U.S. government inquiries into whether some of the Internet search leader's actions are thwarting competition.
Google users loyal: comScore
Aug 15, 2009 |
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The planned Microsoft-Yahoo! online search tie-up has promise but must overcome people's fierce loyalty to market king Google, industry tracker comScore said Friday.
Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft urged not to censor search
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Rights groups called on Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft on Friday not to censor their Web search engines one day next week to help protest cyber censorship.
Google provides peek into new search engine
Aug 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google has lifted the lid on a new version of its search engine, allowing users to look at the results it will generate.
Ad click-through rate lower than previously thought
Feb 25, 2009 |
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The rate of ad clicks from sponsored and non-sponsored links was reported in a recent study conducted by researchers from Penn State and the Queensland University of Technology.
Microsoft sees size as search answer in Yahoo deal
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft is hoping that a long-term partnership with rival Yahoo will give it the size and insight it needs to bring in more traffic, more advertisers and ultimately more revenue.
