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.
Current Yahoo! services
editYahoo offers a multi-lingual interface available in over 20 languages: Yahoo International. Yahoo! Japan is a separate entity, controlled by SoftBank.[1] Yahoo!Xtra, launched in 2007 in New Zealand is owned by Yahoo!7, a joint venture between Yahoo! and the Seven Network.
- Yahoo! home page
- My Yahoo! - Enables users to combine their favorite Yahoo features, content feeds, and information onto a single page.
- Rivals.com
- Yahoo! Auctions - discontinued in 2007 except for Taiwan and Japan.[2]
- Yahoo! Developer Network
- Yahoo! Entertainment (also branded Y! Entertainment)
- Yahoo! Finance
- Yahoo! Life - formerly known as Yahoo! Lifestyle
- Yahoo! Mail
- Yahoo! Native - formerly known as Yahoo! Advertising, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Yahoo! Gemini, it provides online advertising services.
- Yahoo! News
- 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 - formerly known as Yahoo! Labs
- Yahoo! Search
- Yahoo! Shopping - a price comparison service
- Yahoo! Sports
- Yahoo! Weather
Defunct Yahoo! services
edit- Yahoo! 360° - A social networking service and blog host; launched in March 2005 and shut down in 2009. Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam's was shut down in 2012.[3]
- Yahoo! Accessibility Lab - Improved access to the Internet for the disabled community.[4]
- AdInterax - An online advertising company acquired in October 2006.[5]
- Yahoo! Answers - A community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) website discontinued in May 2021.[6]
- APT from Yahoo! - An online advertising platform launched in September 2008.[7]
- Arthas.com - An e-commerce payment system; acquired on March 23, 2000.[8]
- Astrid - A task management application for Android; acquired in May 2013 and shut down on August 5, 2013.[9][10]
- Ask Yahoo! - 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 that blocks pop-up ads for Internet Explorer developed by Beijing 3721 Technology, which was acquired in 2004.[citation needed]
- Yahoo! Autos - A car buying and search engine with content from autoblog.com; shut down in 2016.[11]
- Yahoo! Avatars - Allowed users to create avatars for display on Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo! Answers; shut down on April 1, 2013.[12]
- 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 and mobile browser launched in May 2012 and discontinued June 28, 2013.[13][14]
- Yahoo! Babel Fish - A translation service; shut down in May 2012 and replaced by Bing Translator.[15]
- Bix - A website that provided tools for the creation of contests; acquired by Yahoo on November 16, 2006, and shut down on June 30, 2009.[16][17]
- blo.gs - A directory of blogs; acquired in June 2005 and sold to Automattic, parent of WordPress.com in April 2009.[18] [19][20]
- Yahoo! Briefcase - A free file hosting service; shut down on March 30, 2009.[21]
- Yahoo! Buzz - A community-based news article service that allowed users to publish news stories; shut down on April 21, 2011.[22] MyBlogLog was discontinued on May 24, 2011.[23]
- Yahoo! China shut down on September 2, 2013, and was redirected to taobao.com.[24][25]
- Y!Connect - Enabled individuals to leave comments in Internet forums via their Yahoo ID.[26]
- del.icio.us - A social bookmarking website; acquired on December 9, 2005, and sold to AVOS, owned by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, on April 27, 2011.[27][28][29]
- Yahoo! Directory - A web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size and was the first product by Yahoo!; shut down in December 2014.[30]
- Fire Eagle - A location brokerage service created by Yahoo Brickhouse; launched in March 2008.
- FoxyTunes - A browser extension that allowed users to control media players from the browser window; shut down on July 1, 2013.[14]
- Yahoo! Gallery - A directory of application software built by third-party developers using Yahoo! technologies; shut down on July 14, 2009.
- Yahoo! Games - Allowed users to play games, such as chess, billiards, checkers and backgammon; launched upon acquisition of ClassicGames.com in 1997, shut down in 2016.[31][32]
- Yahoo! GeoCities 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.[33][34] Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 and shut it down in 2009, deleting 7 million web pages.[35][36] Many of those web pages are available at mirror sites such as the Internet Archive[37] and OOCities.org.[38]
- Yahoo! GeoPlanet - Offered geographic information services both directly and via third-party applications; shut down in August 2016.
- Yahoo! Go - A Java based phone application with access to most of Yahoo! services; shut down on January 12, 2010.
- Yahoo! Green - News, ideas, and discussion about ways to promote an environmentally conscious lifestyle; shut down in 2012.
- Yahoo! Greetings - An e-card service. Redirected to American Greetings.
- Yahoo! Groups - One of the largest collections of online discussion boards; shut down on December 15, 2020.[39][40]
- Yahoo! Homes - Offered Real estate-related news, home prices.
- Yahoo! HotJobs - An employment website; acquired by Monster.com for $225 million in 2010.[41]
- IntoNow from Yahoo! - Gave users the ability to almost instantly recognize TV content; acquired in Spring 2011 and shut down in March 2014.[42]
- Yahoo! Indonesia - the Indonesian affiliate of Yahoo!, founded in 2010. Its headquarters was Jakarta, Indonesia.
- Jumpcut.com - A service where the uploaded photos and videos can be edited online; shut down in June 2009.[43]
- Kelkoo Group - A European price comparison tool that was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004 and sold in 2008.[44][45]
- Yahoo! Korea was the South Korean affiliate of Yahoo!, founded in September 1997. Its headquarters was the Yahoo! Tower on Teheranno in the Gangnam District of Seoul. On December 31, 2012, Yahoo! Korea shut down all its services and the website was redirected to the main Yahoo! search page.[46][47][48]
- Koprol - An Indonesian social networking service, allowing users to connect based on location. Shut down in August 2012.[49][50]
- Yahoo! Kickstart - A professional network targeting college students, recent grads, employers, professionals, and alumni. Shut down in December 2008.[51]
- Yahoo! Kids - 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.[52]
- Yahoo! Live - Allowed users to broadcast videos in real time; shut down on December 3, 2008.
- Yahoo! Maktoob - A pan-regional, Arabic-language hosting and social networking service acquired by Yahoo! on August 25, 2009; shut down on October 28, 2022.[53]
- Yahoo! Maps - Online mapping portal; shut down on June 30, 2015.[54][55]
- Yahoo! Mash - A social networking service 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 and was similar to other competing media players such as MusicMatch or Winamp.
- Yahoo! Meme - A beta social networking service, similar to Twitter; shut down on May 25, 2012.
- Yahoo! Messenger - An instant messaging app; shut down on July 17, 2018.
- Yahoo! Mobile - Former carrier in the United States; shut down on August 31, 2021.[56]
- Yahoo! Movies
- Yahoo! Music - Provided Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming; shut down in September 2018 and consolidated into Yahoo! Entertainment's "Music" section.
- Yahoo! Music Unlimited and Yahoo! Music Jukebox - 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 and X17; shut down on January 6, 2014.[57]
- Panama - An online advertising platform.
- Yahoo! Personals - An online dating service with both free and paid versions; shut down in July 2010.[58]
- Yahoo! Photos - A photo sharing service similar to Flickr, which Yahoo acquired; shut down on September 20, 2007.[59]
- Yahoo! Pipes - A free RSS mashup visual editor and hosting service; shut down on September 30, 2015.
- Yahoo! Podcasts - A beta service that allowed users to search for and view podcasts; 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.[60]
- Rocketmail - An email service acquired in 1997. Shut down but users were able to use an @rocketmail.com email address.[61]
- Yahoo! Screen (formerly Yahoo! Video) - A video sharing website; shut down in January 2016.[62]
- Yahoo! Labs A Yahoo! technology division as Yahoo!’s research arm. It was replaced by Yahoo! Research on February 17, 2016.
- Yahoo! Search BOSS - A service that allowed developers to build search applications based on Yahoo's search technology.[63][64]
- 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 and Yahoo search partnership.[65]
- Shine - A site tailored for women between the ages of 25 and 54. Launched On March 31, 2008.[66] It was shut down in 2014.[67]
- Yahoo! Site Explorer - Allowed users to view information on websites in Yahoo!'s search index; shut down on November 21, 2011.[68]
- 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.[69]
- Yahoo! Smart TV - a Smart TV platform developed by Yahoo!; discontinued in 2018.
- Yahoo! Smush.it - Optimized digital images by removing unnecessary bytes and reducing file size; shut down in April 2015.[70]
- Yahoo! Tech - Offered reviews and advice for buying and using electronics; integrated into Yahoo News in 2016.[71]
- Yahoo! Transliteration - An online translator.[72]
- Yahoo! Travel - A travel-booking website; shut down in February 2016.[73]
- Upcoming - A social event calendar acquired in October 2005; shut down in April 2013.[74]
- Yahoo! Widgets - A cross-platform desktop widget runtime environment; shut down in March 2012.
- Yahoo! Web Analytics - Web analytics tools; formerly IndexTools was acquired by Yahoo! in 2008 and re-branded; discontinued in 2012.[75][76]
- Wretch - A Taiwanese social networking service acquired by Yahoo in July 2007; shut down in December 2013.[77]
- Yahoo! Voice - A Voice over IP service formerly known as Dialpad; shut down on January 30, 2013.
- Yahoo! Voices - Formerly Associated Content (AC), distributed writing through its website and content partners, including Yahoo! News; shut down July 31, 2014.[78]
- Yahoo! OneSearch - Privacy focused version of Yahoo! Search. Shut down on October 31, 2024 for losing popularity
References
edit- ^ Dillet, Romain (November 13, 2019). "Yahoo Japan and Line are reportedly going to merge". TechCrunch.
- ^ "Yahoo to close North American auction site". NBC News. Associated Press. May 9, 2007.
- ^ Perez, Juan Carlos (May 29, 2009). "Yahoo Sets Date for Shutting Down 360 Social Network". Computerworld.
- ^ Cooper, Chet; Angeles, Liz (February–March 2011). "Yahoo! and Accessibility". Ability Magazine. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012.
- ^ "Yahoo! to Acquire AdInterax" (Press release). Archived from the original on 2014-05-12.
- ^ Statt, Nick (April 5, 2021). "Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th". The Verge.
- ^ Keane, Meghan (September 24, 2008). "Yahoo Announces New Digital Ad Platform". Wired. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
- ^ "Yahoo! Plans to Offer Person-to-Person Payment Solution to Buyers and Sellers; Company Acquires Arthas.com, a Leading Person-to-Person Technology Platform" (Press release). Business Wire. March 23, 2000.
- ^ Blair, Nancy (August 5, 2013). "Yahoo shutters to-do list app Astrid". USA Today.
- ^ Velazko, Chris (July 6, 2013). "Yahoo's Recently Acquired Task Tracking Service Astrid Will Go Dark On August 5". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on July 12, 2013.
- ^ Kludt, Tom (February 17, 2016). "Yahoo shuts down seven digital magazines". CNN.
- ^ Moreau, Elise (February 24, 2020). "What Happened to Yahoo Avatars and Yahoo 360?". Lifewire.
- ^ Bishop, Todd (May 23, 2012). "A web browser from Yahoo? 'Axis' makes surprise debut". GeekWire.
- ^ a b Rossiter, Jay (28 June 2013). "Keeping our Focus on What's Next". Tumblr.
- ^ Barron, Brenda (December 22, 2020). "How Babel Fish Got Lost In Translation: A History Lesson". Digital.com.
- ^ "Yahoo! Acquires Contest Site Bix". Techcrunch. November 16, 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-11-20.
- ^ "Yahoo Shuts Bix Down. Did Anyone Notice?". TechCrunch. August 4, 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-02-03.
- ^ LeMay, Renai (June 15, 2005). "Yahoo acquires blog directory". ZDNet.
- ^ Kee, Tameka (April 21, 2009). "Yahoo Spins Off Blo.gs To Automattic". CBS News.
- ^ Marshall, Matt (April 22, 2009). "Blog company Automattic buys Blo.gs". VentureBeat.
- ^ Lawson, Stephen (January 31, 2009). "Yahoo's Briefcase storage service to close March 30". Computerworld.
- ^ "Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo To Kill Buzz On April 21". Techcrunch. April 18, 2011. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30.
- ^ Lee, Amy (February 24, 2011). "Yahoo to close MyBlogLog this May". HuffPost. Archived from the original on March 4, 2011.
- ^ "Yahoo ceases China news and community services". BBC News. September 2, 2013. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013.
- ^ Shu, Catherine (September 1, 2013). "Yahoo China Shuts Down Its Web Portal". TechCrunch.
- ^ Efrati, Amir (October 17, 2010). "Yahoo to Offer Media Links". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on April 10, 2015.
- ^ "Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders". TechCrunch. April 27, 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30.
- ^ "YouTube founders buy Delicious from Yahoo". BBC News. April 28, 2017.
- ^ McCarthy, Caroline (December 16, 2010). "Yahoo! slashing products like Delicious, MyBlogLog". CNET. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011.
- ^ Sullivan, Danny (December 27, 2014). "Yahoo Directory Closes, Five Days Early". Search Engine Land.
- ^ Moon, Mariella (March 15, 2016). "Yahoo Games is shutting down in May". Engadget.
- ^ Wawro, Alex (March 11, 2016). "After nearly 20 years, Yahoo Games is shutting down". Gamasutra.
- ^ "Yahoo! buys GeoCities". CNN. January 28, 1999.
- ^ Jensen, K. Thor (December 8, 2016). "Exploring the Most Popular Websites of the Last 20 Years". PC Magazine.
- ^ Fletcher, Dan (November 9, 2009). "Internet Atrocity! GeoCities' Demise Erases Web History". Time. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012.
- ^ Milian, Mark (October 26, 2009). "GeoCities' time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 21, 2012.
- ^ "GeoCities Special Collection 2009: Saving a Historical Record of GeoCities". Internet Archive. 2009.
- ^ "Geocities Archive Geocities Mirror / The 90s Archive". OOCities.org.
- ^ Cimpanu, Catalin (October 12, 2020). "Yahoo Groups to shut down for good on December 15, 2020". ZDNet.
- ^ Saroha, Aditya (October 13, 2020). "Yahoo Groups to shut down on December 15". The Hindu.
- ^ Schonfeld, Erick (February 3, 2010). "Monster Buys HotJobs from Yahoo for $225 Million". TechCrunch.
- ^ Lawler, Ryan (January 28, 2014). "Yahoo Is Shutting Down IntoNow, Nearly Three Years After Acquisition". TechCrunch.
- ^ Arrington, Michael (April 15, 2009). "Yahoo Shutting Down The Rest Of Jumpcut In June". TechCrunch.
- ^ "Breaking: Yahoo Finally Sells Off Kelkoo". TechCrunch. November 21, 2008.
- ^ Andrews, Robert (November 21, 2008). "Yahoo sells off European comparison shopping site Kelkoo to PE firm". The Guardian.
- ^ Kim, Miyoung (October 19, 2012). "Yahoo to exit South Korea in first Asian pullout". Reuters.
- ^ "YAHOO EXITS SOUTH KOREA, AS PROMISED". PC Magazine. December 31, 2012.
- ^ Russell, Jon (October 19, 2012). "Yahoo confirms it will leave South Korea by the end of the year". The Next Web.
- ^ Grazella, Mariel (June 30, 2012). "Yahoo! drops Koprol in global overhaul". The Jakarta Post. Archived from the original on July 3, 2012.
- ^ Kevin, Joshua (June 29, 2012). "Yahoo is Shutting Down Koprol in Two Months". Tech in Asia. Archived from the original on August 2, 2012.
- ^ "Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo Shutters Kickstart". TechCrunch. December 17, 2008.
- ^ Protalinski, Emil (April 19, 2013). "Yahoo cuts the deadwood with closures". The Next Web. Archived from the original on May 15, 2013.
- ^ Kincaid, Jason (August 25, 2009). "Confirmed: Yahoo Acquires Arab Internet Portal Maktoob". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on September 5, 2012.
- ^ Nieva, Richard (June 4, 2015). "Yahoo to shut down its Maps site". CNET.
- ^ "Yahoo moves in a new direction and shuts down maps". Los Angeles Times. June 4, 2015.
- ^ "Yahoo Mobile shuts down, users must switch to Visible". May 4, 2022.
- ^ Spangler, Todd (January 3, 2014). "Yahoo Will Drop 'omg!' Brand from Celebrity News Site". Variety.
- ^ GLAUDE, TORI (January 21, 2019). "Yahoo! Personals Alternatives to Try After the Shut Down". Zoosk.
- ^ Auchard, Eric (May 4, 2007). "Yahoo to shut down Yahoo Photos service, push Flickr". Reuters.
- ^ Perez, Juan Carlos (March 31, 2010). "Yahoo to shut down small-publisher ad network". Computerworld.
- ^ Blitstein, Scott (June 19, 2008). "Rocketmail Returns as Yahoo! Offers Two New Email Domains". GigaOm.
- ^ Wallenstein, Andrew (January 4, 2016). "Yahoo Screen Shuttered: Video Service Hosted 'Community'; NFL Telecast". Variety. Archived from the original on 2016-01-04.
- ^ Schonfeld, Erick (August 4, 2008). "Yahoo Boss Is So Open, It Runs on Google's App Engine". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 20, 2012.
- ^ "New Yahoo app to challenge Apple FaceTime on iPhone". Reuters. October 7, 2010. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011.
- ^ "Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008, ReadWriteWeb award". ReadWrite. 2 December 2008. Archived from the original on March 29, 2009.
- ^ Jesdanun, Anick (March 31, 2008). "New Yahoo site to 'Shine' on women". NBC News.
- ^ Miners, Zach (July 2, 2014). "Lights out for Yahoo's Shine site, Xobni email apps, other products". Computerworld.
- ^ Young, Rob D. (July 12, 2011). "Yahoo Site Explorer Shutting Down". Search Engine Journal.
- ^ "Yahoo Small Business Announces Rebrand to Verizon Small Business Essentials". May 6, 2022.
- ^ FRANK, BLAIR HANLEY (April 7, 2015). "Web developers left scrambling after Yahoo kills smush.it image optimization service". GeekWire.
- ^ Gupta, Sahil Mohan (February 18, 2016). "Yahoo shutting down multiple digital news sites". India Today.
- ^ Type in Tamil at Yahoo Transliteration. October 4, 2013. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 – via YouTube.
- ^ Clampet, Jason (February 17, 2016). "Yahoo Travel Shuttered as Part of Company-Wide Reorganization". Skift.
- ^ Yeung, Ken (March 30, 2017). "Upcoming.org founder relaunches site 4 years after Yahoo shut it down". VentureBeat.
- ^ PINER, CATHERINE (July 25, 2016). "What Will Happen to Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Maps, and Yahoo Mail? An Exhaustive List". Slate.
- ^ "Yahoo Enters The Analytics Business By Acquiring IndexTools". TechCrunch. April 9, 2008.
- ^ Hong, Kaylene (August 30, 2013). "Yahoo-owned Taiwanese blogging platform Wretch.cc is shutting down on December 26". TNW.
- ^ Sipe, Corey (July 14, 2014). "Yahoo Voices Shuts Down by the End of July: What Yahoo Meant to Me". Patch Media.