Yahoo.com

Yahoo! (/ˈjɑːhuː/, styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States, 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 was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo"Yahoo's Sale to Verizon Ends an Era for a Web Pioneer" - The New York Times in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.
==Services==
Yahoo! provides a web portal, search engine Yahoo Search (search.yahoo.com), and related services, including My Yahoo!, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo! Native.
Yahoo used to provide GeoCities, a web hosting service, after a acquisition for $3.6 billion USD. Yahoo buys GeoCities - CNN It was later closed and defunct after Yahoo Inc. announced that it would end the United States GeoCities service on October 26, 2009 since April 2009."Yahoo Sets the Date of GeoCities' Death" (July 10, 2019)"Yahoo Quiety Pulls The Plugs On GeoCities" (April 23, 2009)
==Origin==
In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web". The site was a human-edited web directory, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In March 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!" and became known as the Yahoo Directory. The "yahoo.com" domain was registered on January 18, 1995.
Yahoo was incorporated on March 2, 1995. In 1995, a search engine function, called Yahoo Search, was introduced. This allowed users to search Yahoo Directory.Inventing the Cloud Century: How Cloudiness Keeps Changing Our Life, Economy and Technology (2017) Yahoo soon became the first popular online directory and search engine on the World Wide Web.
It then grew rapidly throughout the 1990s. Yahoo became a public company via an initial public offering in April 1996 and its stock price rose 600% within two years.https://web.archive.org/web/20210102182412/https://money.cnn.com/1998/07/23/redherring/redherring_kingmaker/ Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal, putting it in competition with multiple services. As of now, it is online.
==See Also==
*Yahoo! in Wikipedia.
==References==
Category:Search engines