Yahoo
Yahoo, is more than just a search engine it was in fact the very first index of topics on the internet kept as a hobby of a couple of Stanford University Students and has now become a global search engine and directory on the internet that offered email accounts, chat rooms, greetings cards news and now of course offers so much more.
The History of Yahoo! - How It All Started...
Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favourite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born.
To find out the full story visit http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html
Today - The main services are
- Search the web - This is probably the most used service
- Images - Search for images from all published web sites
- Video - Search for video clips from all published websites
- Directory - The alphabetical listing of the Yahoo Directory
- Local - The Yahoo local search directory for business and individuals in the USA
- News - International news articles and stories published on the web
- Shopping - Shopping store to buy and for merchants to sell products
As well as
- Chat rooms - hundreds of chat room categories for online chat communities about every topic
- Email accounts - set up your own Yahoo emails account with spam blockers up to 1GB
- Messenger - chat one to one with your friends, send instant messages, call person to person all for free
- Personalise your Yahoo home page
- Yahoo Personals - Find and Advertise for you perfect mate
- Yahoo Finance-uk.yahoo.com for finance, and a range of other online products for British and Irish users.
- Yahoo Weather - Monitor current weather conditions and forecasts anywhere in the world. Read the latest weather news and features, have weather alerts delivered to your mobile phone or e-mail, and view satellite images detailing current weather patterns
- Yahoo! Small Business - Web Hosting & Domain Names Registration - Sell online with Yahoo Shopping Merchant Account
- Free Worldwide PC-to-PC Calls - All you need is a headset, or a microphone and speakers. That's it to make calls ANYWHERE
- 360 Degree's Blog Pages - Create you our Blog personal webpage and share your experiences and personal photos with other web users.
Many of the other services Yahoo offer are American Based Information only such as
- Yahoo Autos - Search for New and Second Hand Cars in the USA, arrange Car Insurance and Finance
- Yahoo! Web Directory - Arts Business Computers - Culture Education Entertainment - Health News Recreation - Reference Regional Science
Today, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 25 World properties. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States.
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