Yahoo

Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24DUB3OpoEMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bxdg31jUUA is an American web services provider, which is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications.
Yahoo! offers a range of web portals, search engines, services like My Yahoo!, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, and its advertising platform, Yahoo! Native.
Yahoo, founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994, was a pioneer in the early Internet era in the 1990s.https://web.archive.org/web/20170216035326/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/business/yahoo-sale.html
== History ==
=== Founding ===
In 1994, Yang and Filo, electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, created the website "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web".https://web.archive.org/web/20080713214826/http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/timeline.cfm In March 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!" and became known as the Yahoo Directory,https://web.archive.org/web/20131005052548/http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/feb/01/microsoft.technology with the "yahoo.com" domain registered in 1995.https://web.archive.org/web/20210504154716/https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/01/18/this-day-in-history-january-18-2017.html
Yahoo introduced a search engine function called Yahoo Search in 1995, enabling users to search Yahoo Directoryhttps://web.archive.org/web/19961128070718/http://www.yahoo.com/search.html and become the first popular online directory and search engine.https://web.archive.org/web/20201028182736/https://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/first-mover Yahoo experienced rapid growth during the 1990s and it became a publicly traded company in April 1996 through its initial public offering. However, its use declined in the late 2000s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google.https://web.archive.org/web/20201202065329/https://www.fastcompany.com/40544277/the-glory-that-was-yahoo Yahoo began using Google for search in June 2000.https://web.archive.org/web/20210411161100/https://www.altaba.com/news-releases/news-release-details/yahoo-selects-google-its-default-search-engine-provider
== Channel ==
On October 4, 2005, Yahoo created their YouTube channel. The first video was uploaded on April 19, 2010, titled "Yahoo! Search Trends 4/16/2010".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCIIsXrf8qA Yahoo usually uploads videos about their website.
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