Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) 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 Mana ...

, 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. Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present), Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds ma ...

, owned by

Apollo Global Management Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American global private-equity firm. It provides investment management and invests in credit, private equity, and real assets. As of March 31, 2022, the company had $512 billion of assets under management, ...

(90%) and

Verizon Communications Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in ...

(10%). It has offered a wide range of online sites and services since its inception in 1994, a majority of which are now defunct.

Current Yahoo! services

Yahoo offers a multi-lingual interface available in over 20 languages:
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Yahoo! Japan is a Japanese internet company originally formed as a joint venture between the American internet company Yahoo! (later divested by Verizon into Altaba) and the Japanese company SoftBank. It is headquartered at Kioi Tower in the Tokyo Garden Te ...

is a separate entity, controlled by

SoftBank is a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo which focuses on investment management. The Group primarily invests in companies operating in technology, energy, and financial sectors. It also runs the Vi ...

Yahoo!Xtra Yahoo!Xtra was a New Zealand web portal that existed under that name from 2007 to 2011. It was a joint venture between Yahoo!7 and Telecom New Zealand (now Spark). Yahoo!7 held a 51 percent stake in the company and Telecom NZ held 49 percent. B ...

, launched in 2007 in New Zealand is owned by

Yahoo!7 Yahoo! Australia (formerly Yahoo7 between 2006 and 2018) is the Australian subsidiary of global internet company Yahoo! Originally a 50/50 joint venture between Yahoo! and Seven West Media, it has been a 100% subsidiary of Verizon Media since ...

, a

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acces ...

between Yahoo! and the

Seven Network The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of ...

. * Yahoo!

home page A home page (or homepage) is the main web page of a website. The term may also refer to the start page shown in a web browser when the application first opens. Usually, the home page is located at the root of the website's domain or subdomain ...

* My Yahoo! - Enables users to combine their favorite Yahoo features, content feeds, and information onto a single page. *

Yahoo! Auctions Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay. There are currently only two localizations of the service active iTaiwananJapan Yahoo! has already discontinued the service in the United State ...

- discontinued in 2007 except for Taiwan and Japan. * Yahoo! Developer Network * Yahoo! Entertainment *

Yahoo! Finance Yahoo! Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo! network. It provides financial news, data and commentary including stock quotes, press releases, financial reports, and original content. It also offers some online tools for perso ...

* Yahoo! Lifestyle *

Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Mail is an email service launched on October 8, 1997, by the American company Yahoo, Inc. The service is free for personal use, with an optional monthly fee for additional features. Business email was previously available with the Yahoo! ...

Yahoo! Movies Yahoo! Movies (formerly Upcoming Movies), provided by the Yahoo! network, is home to a large collection of information on movies, past and new releases, trailers and clips, box office information, and showtimes and movie theater information. Yaho ...

* Yahoo! Native - formerly known as Yahoo! Advertising, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Yahoo! Gemini, it provides

online advertising Online advertising, also known as online marketing, Internet advertising, digital advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising which uses the Internet to promote products and services to audiences and platform users. ...

services. *

Yahoo! News Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. The site was created by a Yahoo! software engineer named Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associate ...

* Yahoo! Plus - a collection of individual subscriptions: Yahoo! Mail Plus, Yahoo! Finance Plus, Yahoo! Fantasy Plus, Yahoo! Plus Protect Home, Yahoo! Plus Protect Mobile, Yahoo! Plus Secure and Yahoo! Plus Support * Yahoo! Research *

Yahoo! Search Yahoo! Search is a Yahoo! internet search provider that uses Microsoft's Microsoft Bing, Bing search engine to power results, since 2009, apart from four years with Google Search, Google until 2019. Originally, "Yahoo! Search" referred to a Yah ...

* Yahoo! Shopping - a

price comparison service A comparison shopping website, sometimes called a price comparison website, price analysis tool, comparison shopping agent, shopbot, aggregator or comparison shopping engine, is a vertical search engine that shoppers use to filter and compare prod ...

Yahoo! Smart TV Yahoo! Smart TV (formerly ''Yahoo! Connected TV'') was a Smart TV platform developed by Yahoo! based upon the Yahoo! Desktop Widgets (Konfabulator) platform. Yahoo! Connected TV announced on August 20, 2008 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Fra ...

Yahoo! Sports Yahoo! Sports is a sports news website launched by Yahoo! on December 8, 1997. It receives a majority of its information from STATS, Inc. It employs numerous writers, and has team pages for teams in almost every North American major sport. B ...

* Yahoo! Weather * Rivals.com

Defunct Yahoo! services

Yahoo! 360° Yahoo! 360° was a social networking and personal communication portal operated by Yahoo! made available in 2005. It enabled users to create personal web sites, share photos from Yahoo! Photos, maintain blogs and lists, create and share a public ...

- A

social networking service A social networking service or SNS (sometimes called a social networking site) is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, ac ...

and

blog A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in Reverse ...

host; launched in March 2005 and shut down in 2009. Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam's was shut down in 2012. * Yahoo! Accessibility Lab - Improved access to the Internet for the disabled community. *

AdInterax 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 wid ...

- An

company acquired in October 2006. *

Yahoo! Answers Yahoo! Answers was a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) website or knowledge market owned by Yahoo! where users would ask questions and answer those submitted by others, and upvote them to increase their visibility. Questions were org ...

- A community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) website discontinued in May 2021. * APT from Yahoo! - An

platform launched in September 2008. * Arthas.com - An

e-commerce payment system An e-commerce payment system (or an electronic payment system) facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for offline transfer, also known as a subcomponent of electronic data interchange (EDI), e-commerce payment systems have become incre ...

; acquired on March 23, 2000. *

Astrid Astrid is a feminine given name of Scandinavian origin, a modern form of the name Ástríðr. Derived from the Old Norse Ássfriðr, a compound name composed of the elements (a god) and (beautiful, fair). Variants * Assan (diminutive) (Swed ...

- A task management application for Android; acquired in May 2013 and shut down on August 5, 2013. *

Ask Yahoo! Yahoo! Answers was a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) website or knowledge market owned by Yahoo! where users would ask questions and answer those submitted by others, and upvote them to increase their visibility. Questions were orga ...

- A Q&A platform that was shut down in March 2006 due to the release of Yahoo! Answers. On May 16, 2013, a new version of Ask Yahoo was launched. * Yahoo! Assistant - A

browser helper object A Browser Helper Object (BHO) is a DLL module designed as a plugin for the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser to provide added functionality. BHOs were introduced in October 1997 with the release of version 4 of Internet Explorer. Most ...

that blocks

pop-up ad Pop-up ads or pop-ups are forms of online advertising on the World Wide Web. A pop-up is a graphical user interface (GUI) display area, usually a small window, that suddenly appears ("pops up") in the foreground of the visual interface. The pop- ...

s for

Internet Explorer Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft which was used in the Windows line of operating systems (in ...

developed by Beijing 3721 Technology, which was acquired in 2004. * Yahoo! Autos - A car buying and

search engine A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...

with content from autoblog.com; shut down in 2016. * Yahoo! Avatars - Allowed users to create

avatar Avatar (, ; ), is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means "descent". It signifies the material appearance or incarnation of a powerful deity, goddess or spirit on Earth. The relative verb to "alight, to make one's appear ...

s for display on Yahoo Messenger and

; shut down on April 1, 2013. * Yahoo! Aviate - Provided contextually relevant information on Android home screens; it was acquired in 2014 and shut down on March 8, 2018. * Yahoo! Axis - A

browser extension A browser extension is a small software module for customizing a web browser. Browsers typically allow a variety of extensions, including user interface modifications, cookie management, ad blocking, and the custom scripting and styling of web ...

and mobile browser launched in May 2012 and discontinued June 28, 2013. *

Yahoo! Babel Fish Yahoo! Babel Fish was a free Web-based multilingual translation application. In May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator (now Microsoft Translator), to which queries were redirected. Although Yahoo! has transitioned its Babel Fish translation ...

- A translation service; shut down in May 2012 and replaced by

Bing Translator Microsoft Translator is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Microsoft. Microsoft Translator is a part of Microsoft Cognitive Services and integrated across multiple consumer, developer, and enterprise products; including B ...

. *

Bix Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical ap ...

- A website that provided tools for the creation of contests; acquired by Yahoo on November 16, 2006 and shut down on June 30, 2009. * blo.gs - A directory of

s; acquired in June 2005 and sold to Automattic, parent of

WordPress.com WordPress.com is a platform for self-publishing that is popular for blogging and other works. It is owned and operated by Automattic, Inc. It is run on a modified version of WordPress software. This website provides free blog hosting for regis ...

in April 2009. * Yahoo! Briefcase - A free

file hosting service A file-hosting service, cloud-storage service, online file-storage provider, or cyberlocker is an internet hosting service specifically designed to host user files. It allows users to upload files that could be accessed over the internet afte ...

; shut down on March 30, 2009. *

Yahoo! Buzz Yahoo! Buzz was a community-based news article website, heavily derived from Digg, that combined the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allowed editorial control. Users could publish their own news stories ...

- A community-based news article service that allowed users to publish news stories; shut down on April 21, 2011. MyBlogLog was discontinued on May 24, 2011. * Yahoo! China shut down on September 2, 2013 and was redirected to taobao.com. * Y!Connect - Enabled individuals to leave comments in

Internet forum An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least tempora ...

s via their Yahoo ID. * del.icio.us - A

social bookmarking Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social ...

website; acquired on December 9, 2005 and sold to

AVOS MixBit was a video sharing service created by Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, two of the co-founders of YouTube. It was released on August 8, 2013. MixBit let users create dynamic shared videos, and competed with Vine (owned by Twitter) and Instagram ...

, owned by

YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo ...

founders

Chad Hurley Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American webmaster and businessman who serves as the advisor and former chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube. He also co-founded MixBit. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "5 ...

and

Steve Chen Steve Chen (; born August 25, 1978) is a Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur who is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube. After having co-founded the company AVOS Systems, Inc ...

, on April 27, 2011. *

Yahoo! Directory 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. When Yahoo! changed its main results to ...

- A

web directory A web directory or link directory is an online list or catalog of websites. That is, it is a directory on the World Wide Web of (all or part of) the World Wide Web. Historically, directories typically listed entries on people or businesses, and th ...

which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size and was the first product by Yahoo!; shut down in December 2014. * Fire Eagle - A location brokerage service created by Yahoo Brickhouse; launched in March 2008. * FoxyTunes - A

that allowed users to control media players from the browser window; shut down on July 1, 2013. * Yahoo! Gallery - A directory of

application software Application may refer to: Mathematics and computing * Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks ** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a ...

built by third-party developers using Yahoo! technologies; shut down on July 14, 2009. *

Yahoo! Games Yahoo! Games was a section of the Yahoo! website, launched on March 31, 1998, in which Yahoo! users could play games either with other users or by themselves. The majority of Yahoo! Games was closed down on March 31, 2014 and the balance was clos ...

- Allowed users to play games, such as

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

billiards Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . There are three major subdivisions ...

checkers Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers ...

and

backgammon Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Pe ...

; launched upon acquisition of ClassicGames.com in 1997, shut down in 2016. *

Yahoo! GeoCities Yahoo! GeoCities was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest. GeoCities was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and ...

was a popular web hosting service founded in 1995 and was one of the first services to offer web pages to the public. In 1998, it was the third-most-browsed website. Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 and shut it down in 2009, deleting 7 million web pages. Many of those web pages are available at

mirror site Mirror sites or mirrors are replicas of other websites or any network node. The concept of mirroring applies to network services accessible through any protocol, such as HTTP or FTP. Such sites have different URLs than the original site, but hos ...

s such as the

Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, ...

and OOCities.org. * Yahoo! GeoPlanet - Offered geographic information services both directly and via third-party applications; shut down in August 2016. *

Yahoo! Go Yahoo! Go was a Java-based phone application provided by Yahoo! for users to access the company's products and services via their mobile phones or PDAs. Up till its closure, Yahoo! considered Go as Beta software. Services include sending/receiving ...

- A Java based phone application with access to most of Yahoo! services; shut down on January 12, 2010. *

Yahoo! Green Yahoo! Green was a website created by Yahoo! that gathered news, ideas, and discussion about ways to promote an environmentally conscious lifestyle. It included numerous ideas on conserving natural resources and limiting consumption and waste. S ...

- News, ideas, and discussion about ways to promote an environmentally conscious lifestyle; shut down in 2012. * Yahoo! Greetings - An

e-card E-card is an electronic postcard or greeting card, with the primary difference being that it is created using digital media instead of paper or other traditional materials. E-cards are made available many different ways, usually on various Intern ...

service. Redirected to

American Greetings American Greetings Corporation is a privately owned American company and is the world's second largest greeting card producer behind Hallmark Cards. Based in Westlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, the company sells paper greeting cards, electr ...

. * Yahoo! Groups - One of the largest collections of online discussion boards; shut down on December 15, 2020. * Yahoo! Homes - Offered

Real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more genera ...

-related news, home prices. *

Yahoo! HotJobs Yahoo HotJobs, formerly known as hotjobs.com, was an online job search engine An employment website is a website that deals specifically with employment or careers. Many employment websites are designed to allow employers to post job requiremen ...

- An

employment website An employment website is a website that deals specifically with employment or careers. Many employment websites are designed to allow employers to post job requirements for a position to be filled and are commonly known as job boards. Other em ...

; acquired by Monster.com for $225 million in 2010. * IntoNow from Yahoo! - Gave users the ability to almost instantly recognize TV content; acquired in Spring 2011 and shut down in March 2014. * Yahoo! Indonesia - the

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...

n affiliate of

, founded in 2010. Its headquarters was

Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital city, capital and list of Indonesian cities by population, largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coa ...

. * Jumpcut.com - A service where the uploaded photos and videos can be edited online; shut down in June 2009. * Kelkoo Group - A European price comparison tool that was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004 and sold in 2008. * Yahoo! Korea was the

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

n affiliate of Yahoo!, founded in September 1997. Its headquarters was the Yahoo! Tower on Teheranno in the

Gangnam District Gangnam District ( ; , ) is one of the 25 local government districts which make up the city of Seoul, South Korea. Gangnam translates to "South of the ( Han) River". Gangnam District is the third largest district in Seoul, with an area of . ...

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the Capital city, capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the North Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea ...

. On December 31, 2012, Yahoo! Korea shut down all its services and the website was redirected to the main Yahoo! search page. *

Koprol Koprol, since 25 May 2010 called Yahoo Koprol, was an Indonesian social networking service, allowing users to connect based on location. Mobile users can use the site as a positioning service, without the need for a GPS receiver. Once logged in, ...

- An Indonesian

, allowing users to connect based on location. Shut down in August 2012. *

Yahoo! Kickstart Yahoo! Kickstart was a professional network created by Yahoo! for college students, recent graduates, employers and alumni. The service was similar to LinkedIn, initially aimed at connecting students and alumni of the same university professionall ...

- A professional network targeting college students, recent grads, employers, professionals, and alumni. Shut down in December 2008. *

Yahoo! Kids Yahoo! Kids (known as Yahoo!きっず in Japan) is a public web portal provided by Yahoo! Japan to find age appropriate online content for children between the ages of 4 and 12. This site was formerly available in English via Yahoo!, where it wa ...

- A children's version of the Yahoo! portal, it offered online safety tips and parental controls; shut down in April 2013 due to declining popularity. *

Yahoo! Live Yahoo! Live or Y! Live was a Yahoo! service that allowed users to broadcast videos in real time. The service was closed on December 3, 2008. History Yahoo! Live was launched on February 6, 2008 as a "limited preview" and in spite of Yahoo!'s re ...

- Allowed users to broadcast videos in real time; shut down on December 3, 2008. *

Yahoo! Maktoob Maktoob ( ar, مكتوب) was an online services company founded in Amman (Jordan). Maktoob.com was known for being the first Arabic/English email service provider. In 2009, Yahoo! acquired Maktoob.com, thus turning Maktoob into Yahoo!'s officia ...

- A pan-regional, Arabic-language hosting and

acquired by Yahoo! on August 25, 2009; shut down on October 28, 2022. *

Yahoo! Maps Yahoo! Maps was a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo! Functionality included local weather powered by The Weather Channel, printing maps, and local reviews powered by Yelp. It shut down on June 30, 2015. For a time in 2019, Yahoo! Maps ...

- Online mapping portal; shut down on June 30, 2015. *

Yahoo! Mash Yahoo! Mash was a social networking service by Yahoo! Yahoo! Mash pages were composed of modules, such as photos or common friends, that could be added by their users or their contacts. Unless the feature was disabled, users were able to edit oth ...

- A

that allowed other users to edit any page; shut down on September 28, 2008. * Yahoo! Media Player / Web Player - A computer based media player that was based on Microsoft's

Windows Media Player Windows Media Player (WMP) is the first media player and media library application that was developed by Microsoft for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as ...

and was similar to other competing media players such as

MusicMatch MusicMatch Jukebox was an audio player made by San Diego-based MusicMatch, Inc. It contained features commonly found in jukebox software such as the ability to manage digital audio files and playlists, audio file conversion, an online music st ...

Winamp Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014. Since ve ...

. * Yahoo! Meme - A beta

, similar to

Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...

; shut down on May 25, 2012. *

Yahoo! Messenger Yahoo! Messenger (sometimes abbreviated Y!M) was an advertisement-supported instant messaging client (computing), client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger was provided free of charge and could be downloaded and used wit ...

- An

instant messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network. Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties, when each user inputs text and tri ...

app; shut down on July 17, 2018. * Yahoo! Mobile - Former carrier in the United States; shut down on August 31, 2021. *

Yahoo! Music Yahoo! Music was a brand under which Yahoo! provided a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming. Previously, users with Yahoo! accounts could gain access to hundreds o ...

- Provided

Internet radio Online radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio, IP radio, Internet radio) is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted ...

music video A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing devic ...

s, news, artist information, and original programming; shut down in September 2018 and consolidated into Yahoo! Entertainment's "Music" section. *

Yahoo! Music Unlimited Yahoo! Music Unlimited was an on-demand online music service launched on May 10, 2005 and provided by Yahoo! Music. The service was discontinued on September 30, 2008. Service Users paid a subscription fee to access a library of over two milli ...

and

Yahoo! Music Jukebox Yahoo! Music Jukebox, formerly known as Yahoo! Music Engine, was a freeware music player released by Yahoo! in 2005 to compete with iTunes and Rhapsody in the digital music market. Developed side-by-side with MusicMatch Jukebox, another music p ...

- Acquired from MusicMatch; sold to Rhapsody on October 31, 2008. * Yahoo! Next - An incubation ground for future Yahoo technologies. * Yahoo! OMG - An online tabloid with most content provided by

Access Hollywood ''Access Hollywood'', formerly known as ''Access'' from 2017 to 2019, is an American weekday television entertainment news program that premiered on September 9, 1996. It covers events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was create ...

and X17; shut down on January 6, 2014. *

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...

- An

platform. * Yahoo! Personals - An

online dating service Online dating, also known as Internet dating, Virtual dating, or Mobile app dating, is a relatively recent method used by people with a goal of searching for and interacting with potential romantic or sexual partners, via the internet. An onlin ...

with both free and paid versions; shut down in July 2010. *

Yahoo! Photos Yahoo! Photos was a photo sharing service launched on March 28, 2000 and owned by Yahoo!, designed specifically for Yahoo! users. Users created individual photo albums, categorized their photos and placed them in the corresponding albums. Users ...

- A photo sharing service similar to

Flickr Flickr ( ; ) is an American image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was a popular way for amateur and profession ...

, which Yahoo acquired; shut down on September 20, 2007. *

Yahoo! Pipes Yahoo! Pipes was a web application from Yahoo! that provided a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services; creating Web-based apps from various sources; and publishing those apps. ...

- A free RSS mashup visual editor and hosting service; shut down on September 30, 2015. *

Yahoo! Podcasts Yahoo! Podcasts was a podcasting A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to li ...

- A

beta Beta (, ; uppercase , lowercase , or cursive ; grc, βῆτα, bē̂ta or ell, βήτα, víta) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 2. In Modern Greek, it represents the voiced labiod ...

service that allowed users to search for and view

podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosin ...

s; discontinued in November 2007. * Yahoo! Profile / Yahoo Pulse - A directory of Yahoo users with their personal information. * Yahoo! Publisher Network - An advertising network that only accepted US based publishers; shut down on April 30, 2010. *

Rocketmail RocketMail was one of the first major free webmail services. The service was originally a product of Four11 Corporation. For a brief time, RocketMail battled with Hotmail for the number-one spot among free webmail services. Four11, including R ...

- An email service acquired in 1997. Shut down but users were able to use an @rocketmail.com email address. *

Yahoo! Screen The company Yahoo! ran several similar video services. Yahoo! Video, a video hosting service, was established in 2006. Later, the ability to upload videos was removed, changing it to a more pure video on demand service; the website became a p ...

(formerly Yahoo! Video) - A

video sharing website An online video platform (OVP), provided by a video hosting service, enables users to upload, convert, store and play back video content on the Internet, often via a structured, large-scale system that may generate revenue. Users will generally u ...

; shut down in January 2016. * Yahoo! Search BOSS - A service that allowed developers to build search applications based on Yahoo's search technology. * Yahoo! SearchMonkey - Allowed developers and site owners to use structured data to make Yahoo Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites; shut down in October 2010 as part of the

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washi ...

and Yahoo search partnership. * Shine - A site tailored for women between the ages of 25 and 54. Launched On March 31, 2008. It was shut down in 2014. * Yahoo! Site Explorer - Allowed users to view information on websites in Yahoo!'s search index; shut down on November 21, 2011. * Yahoo! Small Business - A service offered by the Yahoo! to get users start up and expand their business online; rebranded as Verizon Small Business Essentials in 2021. * Yahoo! Smush.it - Optimized

digital images A digital image is an image composed of picture elements, also known as ''pixels'', each with '' finite'', '' discrete quantities'' of numeric representation for its intensity or gray level that is an output from its two-dimensional functions ...

by removing unnecessary bytes and reducing file size; shut down in April 2015. *

Yahoo! Tech Yahoo! Tech is a technology news web site operated by Yahoo!. Former Yahoo! Tech The site, which was the first new product from the Santa Monica, California-based Yahoo! Media Group, featured a selection of original, licensed, and user-generated ...

- Offered reviews and advice for buying and using

electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

; integrated into Yahoo News in 2016. * Yahoo! Transliteration - An online translator. * Yahoo! Travel - A travel-booking website; shut down in February 2016. *

Upcoming Upcoming (formerly Upcoming.org) is a social event calendar website that launched in 2003, founded by Andy Baio. Features Upcoming combines features of an event calendar and a social networking site. Primarily, the site is a searchable, brow ...

- A social event calendar acquired in October 2005; shut down in April 2013. *

Yahoo! Widgets Yahoo Widgets is a discontinued free application platform for macOS, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, specifically Windows XP, Windows Vista, Vista and Windows 7. The software was previously called Konfabulator, but after being acquired by computer ...

- A cross-platform desktop widget runtime environment; shut down in March 2012. * Yahoo! Web Analytics -

Web analytics Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of web data to understand and optimize web usage. Web analytics is not just a process for measuring web traffic but can be used as a tool for business and market research and ...

tools; formerly IndexTools was acquired by Yahoo! in 2008 and re-branded; discontinued in 2012. * Wretch - A Taiwanese

acquired by Yahoo in July 2007; shut down in December 2013. *

Yahoo! Voice Yahoo Voice was a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC telecommunications service. It was provided by Yahoo via its Yahoo Messenger instant messaging application. Yahoo Voice used the Session Initiation Protocol ...

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Voice over IP Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms Internet t ...

service formerly known as Dialpad; shut down on January 30, 2013. *

Yahoo! Voices Yahoo! Voices, formerly Associated Content (AC), was a division of Yahoo! that focused on online publishing. Yahoo! Voices distributed a large variety of writing through its website and content partners, including Yahoo! News. In early December 20 ...

- Formerly Associated Content (AC), distributed writing through its website and content partners, including

; shut down July 31, 2014.

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