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  2. Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017) - Wikipedia

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    Inc. [3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4] [5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6] Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and ...

  3. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! ( / ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [ 4][ 5] is an American web services provider. It 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 . It provides a web portal, search engine ...

  4. Yellow pages - Wikipedia

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    The yellow pages are telephone directories of businesses, organized by category rather than alphabetically by business name, in which advertising is sold. The directories were originally printed on yellow paper, as opposed to white pages for non-commercial listings. The traditional term "yellow pages" is now also applied to online directories ...

  5. Yahoo! Search - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! Search is a search engine owned and operated by Yahoo!, using Microsoft Bing to power results. Originally, "Yahoo! Search" referred to a Yahoo!-provided interface that sent queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of websites. The results were presented to the user under the Yahoo! brand.

  6. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine. Proprietary (14-day trial) [7] Nepomuk: Linux: Open-source semantic desktop search tool for Linux. Has been replaced by Baloo in KDE Applications from release 4.13 onward. License SA 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation ...

  7. List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo!, once one of the most popular web sites in the United States, is as of September 2021 a content sub-division of the namesake company Yahoo Inc., owned by Apollo Global Management (90%) and Verizon Communications (10%). It has offered a wide range of online sites and services since its inception in 1994, a majority of which are now defunct.

  8. GeoCities - Wikipedia

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    The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content: For example, computer-related sites were displayed in "SiliconValley" and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood", hence the name of the site. Soon after its acquisition by Yahoo!, this practice was abandoned in favor of using the Yahoo ...

  9. Yahoo! Directory - Wikipedia

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    Current status. Defunct as of December 26, 2014. The Yahoo! Directory was a web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size. The directory was Yahoo! 's first offering and started in 1994 under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. [1] When Yahoo! changed its main results to crawler-based listings under Yahoo!