Content deleted Content added
No edit summary Tags: Reverted Visual edit |
Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5 |
||
| (9 intermediate revisions by 9 users not shown) | |||
Line 6:
| name = Yahoo!
| logo = Yahoo! (2019).svg
| logo_caption = Logo used since
| type = Web portal and online services
| registration = Optional
Line 26:
}}
'''Yahoo!''' ({{IPAc-en|'|j|aː|h|uː}}, styled '''yahoo''!''''' in its [[logo]])<ref>{{YouTube|24DUB3OpoEM|Yahoo Commercial 2006}}</ref><ref>{{YouTube|2bxdg31jUUA|Yahoo 'Flashing Lights' Commercial (1080p)}}</ref> is an American [[web
It provides a [[web portal]], search engine [[Yahoo! Search|Yahoo Search]], and related services, including [[My Yahoo!]], [[Yahoo! Mail|Yahoo Mail]], [[Yahoo! News|Yahoo News]], [[Yahoo! Finance|Yahoo Finance]], [[Yahoo! Sports|Yahoo Sports]] and its advertising platform, [[Yahoo! Native]].
Line 38:
===Founding===
[[File:Jerry Yang and David Filo.jpg|thumb|[[Jerry Yang]] and [[David Filo]], the founders of Yahoo]]
[[File:Yahoo screenshot 1994.png|thumb|The Yahoo home page in 1994, when it was a directory
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".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/timeline.cfm |title=Yahoo! Inc. – Company Timeline |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080713214826/http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/timeline.cfm |archive-date=July 13, 2008 |access-date=July 19, 2016 }}</ref><ref name="How Jerry">{{cite news|title=How Jerry's guide to the world wide web became Yahoo|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/feb/01/microsoft.technology|access-date=May 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005052548/http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/feb/01/microsoft.technology |archive-date=October 5, 2013 |url-status=live |last=Clark |first=Andrew |date=February 1, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/photos/20-years-of-yahoo-1425235248-slideshow/yahoo-celebrates-20th-anniversary-photo-1425250631030.html |title=Yahoo! celebrates 20th anniversary |website=Yahoo News |date=March 1, 2015 |archive-date=January 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113015432/http://news.yahoo.com/photos/20-years-of-yahoo-1425235248-slideshow/yahoo-celebrates-20th-anniversary-photo-1425250631030.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Romano |first=Andrew |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/at-20--yahoo-celebrates-and-looks-ahead-025355178.html |title=At 20, Yahoo Celebrates and Looks Ahead |website=Yahoo |date=March 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327204521/https://www.yahoo.com/tech/at-20--yahoo-celebrates-and-looks-ahead-025355178.html |archive-date=March 27, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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|Yahoo Directory]].<ref name="How Jerry" /><ref>{{cite book |title=Blueprint to a Billion |last=Thomson |first= David G. |page=155 |publisher=[[Wiley-Interscience]] |date=2006 |isbn=978-0-471-77918-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Trex |first=Ethan |url=http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/22707.html |title=Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web becomes Yahoo! |publisher=Blogs.static.mentalfloss.com |access-date=August 24, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100316220147/http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/22707.html |archive-date=March 16, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Directory">[http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-close-204370 The Yahoo Directory — Once The Internet's Most Important Search Engine — Is To Close] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611083559/http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-close-204370 |date=June 11, 2017}} September 26, 2014, retrieved on June 3, 2017</ref><ref>[https://www.golem.de/news/yahoo-directory-yahoo-schliesst-seinen-katalog-1409-109478.html Yahoo schließt seinen Katalog] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518081117/https://www.golem.de/news/yahoo-directory-yahoo-schliesst-seinen-katalog-1409-109478.html |date=May 18, 2017}} from golem.de, September 27, 2014, retrieved on June 3, 2017</ref> The "yahoo.com" domain was registered on January 18, 1995.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/01/18/this-day-in-history-january-18-2017.html | title=This Day in History, January 18, 2017 | publisher=[[CNBC]] | date=January 18, 2017 | access-date=May 4, 2021 | archive-date=May 4, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504154716/https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/01/18/this-day-in-history-january-18-2017.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
The word "yahoo" is a [[backronym]] for "[[Yet another|Yet Another]] Hierarchically Organized Oracle"<ref>{{cite news |work=[[Network World]] |title=Hello, Is Anyone Out There? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pw4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA40 |date=September 11, 1995 |last=Gaffin |first=Adam |access-date=March 5, 2015 |archive-date=May 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514163028/https://books.google.com/books?id=pw4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA40 |url-status=live }}</ref> or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.lifewire.com/what-does-yahoo-stand-for-2483337 | title=What Does "Yahoo" Stand For? | first=Paul | last=Gil | work=[[Lifewire]] | date=April 19, 2021 | access-date=May 4, 2021 | archive-date=October 7, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007112246/http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/internet101/f/yahoostory.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "source of truth and wisdom", and the term "officious", rather than being related to the word's normal meaning, described the many office workers who would use the Yahoo database while surfing from work.<ref>{{cite web |title=What Does 'Yahoo' Stand For? |url=http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/internet101/f/yahoostory.htm |last=Gurnitsky |first=Joanna |work=About.com |access-date=July 2, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411035134/http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/internet101/f/yahoostory.htm |archive-date=April 11, 2012}}</ref> However, Filo and Yang insist they mainly selected the name because they liked the slang definition of a "yahoo" (used by college students in David Filo's native Louisiana in the late 1980s and early 1990s to refer to an unsophisticated, rural Southerner): "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://docs.yahoo.com//info//misc//history.html|title=The History of Yahoo! – How It All Started ... |date=January 9, 2011 |publisher=Yahoo! |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110109042907/http://docs.yahoo.com//info//misc//history.html|archive-date=January 9, 2011}}</ref> This meaning derives from the [[Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels)|Yahoo]] race of fictional beings from ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''.
Line 77:
On November 21, 2014, Yahoo acquired [[Cooliris]].<ref>By TechCrunch "[https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/21/yahoo-acquires-cooliris/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706140746/https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/21/yahoo-acquires-cooliris/|date=July 6, 2017}}."</ref>
In August 2023, it was announced Yahoo had acquired the [[San Francisco]]-headquartered social investing platform, Commonstock.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-24 |title=Yahoo buys social investing platform Commonstock |url=https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/42836/yahoo-buys-social-investing-platform-commonstock |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=Finextra Research |language=en |archive-date=August 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824163804/https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/42836/yahoo-buys-social-investing-platform-commonstock |url-status=live }}</ref>
In April 2024, it was announced Yahoo had acquired the [[Artificial intelligence|AI]]-driven news aggregator app, [[Artifact (app)|Artifact]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pierce |first=David |date=2024-04-02 |title=Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders |url=https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118436/yahoo-news-artifact-acquisition |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=The Verge |language=en |archive-date=April 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240403103518/https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118436/yahoo-news-artifact-acquisition |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Decline, security breaches, and sale===
Line 83 ⟶ 85:
By December 2015, Mayer was criticized as performance declined.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-marissa-mayer-yahoo-20151207-story.html |title=Scrutiny on Yahoo's Marissa Mayer grows more intense|last=McGregor|first=Jenna|date=December 7, 2015|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=December 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208162739/http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-marissa-mayer-yahoo-20151207-story.html|archive-date=December 8, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/s/yahoo-board-final-talks-fate-core-business-210206302--finance.html |title=Yahoo board in final talks on future of company |first=Deborah M. |last=Todd |date=December 5, 2015 |newspaper=Reuters |access-date=May 3, 2021 |archive-date=May 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503141535/https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/s/yahoo-board-final-talks-fate-core-business-210206302--finance.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-divestiture-stock-idINKBN0TL1Y520151202 |title=With buyback help, Yahoo stock has soared under Mayer |last=Campos |first=Rodrigo |date=December 2, 2015 |work=Reuters |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151206112140/http://news.yahoo.com/buyback-help-yahoo-stock-soared-under-mayer-165301156--finance.html |archive-date=December 6, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/yahoo-divestiture-verizon-idUSKBN0TQ2GU20151207 |title=Verizon could explore Yahoo's Internet business, CFO says |last1=Goliya |first1=Kshitiz |last2=Nayak |first2=Malathi |date=December 7, 2015 | work=[[Reuters]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209074431/http://www.reuters.com/article/yahoo-divestiture-verizon-idUSKBN0TQ2GU20151207#gV1SBexKJDkOShpR.97 |archive-date=December 9, 2015}}</ref> Mayer was ranked as the least likable CEO in tech.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/why-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-the-least-likable-ceo-in-tech.html | title=Why Marissa Mayer is the 'least likable' CEO in tech | first=Zameena | last=Mejia | work=[[CNBC]] | date=May 31, 2017 | access-date=May 3, 2021 | archive-date=May 3, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503051856/https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/why-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-the-least-likable-ceo-in-tech.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-marissa-mayer-rise-and-fall-2017-6 | title=The rise and fall of Marissa Mayer, the once-beloved CEO of Yahoo now pursuing her own venture | work=[[Business Insider]] | date=February 11, 2020 | access-date=May 3, 2021 | archive-date=March 18, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318082350/https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-marissa-mayer-rise-and-fall-2017-6 | url-status=live }}</ref>
On February 2, 2016, Mayer announced layoffs amounting to 15% of the Yahoo! workforce.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/02/yahoo-earnings-cutting-workforce-closing-offices-tech | title=Yahoo cutting workforce by 15% after announcing $4.4bn loss | first1=Jana | last1=Kasperkevic | first2=Julia Carrie | last2=Wong | author2-link=Julia Carrie Wong | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=February 2, 2016 | access-date=February 21, 2021 | archive-date=November 8, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108104805/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/02/yahoo-earnings-cutting-workforce-closing-offices-tech | url-status=live }}</ref>
On July 25, 2016, [[Verizon Communications]] announced the acquisition of Yahoo's core Internet business for $4.83 billion.<ref name="Yahoo!-Inc-Jul-2016-8-K">{{cite web |url=http://edgar.secdatabase.com/288/119312516656036/filing-main.htm |title=Yahoo! Inc, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Jul 25, 2016 |publisher=secdatabase.com |access-date=April 30, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501224427/http://edgar.secdatabase.com/288/119312516656036/filing-main.htm |archive-date=May 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/business/yahoo-sale.html |title=Yahoo's Sale to Verizon Ends an Era for a Web Pioneer |last1=Goel |first1=Vindu| date=July 24, 2016 |last2=Merced|first2=Michael J. De La |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | url-access=subscription |issn=0362-4331|access-date=July 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727152338/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/business/yahoo-sale.html |archive-date=July 27, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-verizon-buys-yahoo-20160725-snap-story.html|title=Verizon buys Yahoo for $4.8 billion, and it's giving Yahoo's brand another chance|last1=Lien|first1=Tracey|date=July 25, 2016|access-date=July 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725150235/http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-verizon-buys-yahoo-20160725-snap-story.html|archive-date=July 25, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://qz.com/741056/the-stunning-collapse-of-yahoos-valuation/|title=The stunning collapse of Yahoo's valuation|first=Alison|last=Griswold|date=July 25, 2016 |access-date=August 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730012712/http://qz.com/741056/the-stunning-collapse-of-yahoos-valuation/|archive-date=July 30, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The deal excluded Yahoo's 15% stake in [[Alibaba Group]] and 35.5% stake in [[Yahoo! Japan|Yahoo Japan]].<ref name="Yahoo!-Inc-Aug-2016-DEFA14A">{{cite web |url=http://pdf.secdatabase.com/1967/0001193125-16-666712.pdf |title=Yahoo! Inc, Form DEFA14A, Filing Date Aug 1, 2016 |publisher=secdatabase.com |access-date=May 1, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501161008/http://pdf.secdatabase.com/1967/0001193125-16-666712.pdf |archive-date=May 1, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Yahoo!-Inc-Jul-2016-2-8-K">{{cite web |url=http://edgar.secdatabase.com/2313/89882216000404/filing-main.htm |title=Verizon, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Jul 25, 2016 |publisher=secdatabase.com |access-date=May 1, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501224457/http://edgar.secdatabase.com/2313/89882216000404/filing-main.htm |archive-date=May 1, 2018}}</ref>
Line 97 ⟶ 99:
In September 2021, [[investment fund]]s managed by [[Apollo Global Management]] acquired 90% of Yahoo.<ref name=owneragain>{{cite news |last=Mihalcik |first=Carrie |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-officially-has-a-new-owner-again/ |title=Yahoo has a new owner, again |work=[[CNET]] |date=September 1, 2021 |access-date=September 7, 2021 |archive-date=September 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907125550/https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-officially-has-a-new-owner-again/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite press release | url=https://www.apollo.com/stockholders/press-releases/2021/09-01-2021-161530593 | title=Apollo Funds Complete Acquisition of Yahoo | publisher=[[Apollo Global Management]] | date=September 1, 2021 | access-date=September 11, 2021 | archive-date=September 1, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901172048/https://www.apollo.com/stockholders/press-releases/2021/09-01-2021-161530593 | url-status=live }}</ref>
In November 2021, Yahoo announced that it was
In 2023, Yahoo announced that it would
===Chief executive officers===
| |||