American web portal
Yahoo!
(
, 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
Yahoo Search
, and related services, including
My Yahoo!
,
Yahoo Mail
,
Yahoo News
,
Yahoo Finance
,
Yahoo Sports
and its advertising platform,
Yahoo! Native
.
Yahoo was established by
Jerry Yang
and
David Filo
in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.
[6]
However, its use declined in the late 2000s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to
Facebook
and
Google
.
[7]
[8]
History
Founding
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".
[9]
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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
.
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The "yahoo.com" domain was registered on January 18, 1995.
[17]
The word "yahoo" is a
backronym
for "
Yet Another
Hierarchically Organized Oracle"
[18]
or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".
[19]
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.
[20]
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."
[21]
This meaning derives from the
Yahoo
race of fictional beings from
Gulliver's Travels
.
Yahoo was incorporated on March 2, 1995. In 1995, a
search engine
function, called Yahoo Search, was introduced. This allowed users to search Yahoo Directory.
[22]
[23]
Yahoo soon became the first popular online directory and search engine on the
World Wide Web
.
[24]
Expansion
Yahoo grew rapidly throughout the 1990s. Yahoo became a
public company
via an
initial public offering
in April 1996 and its stock price rose 600% within two years.
[25]
Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal, putting it in competition with services including
Excite
,
Lycos
, and
America Online
.
[26]
By 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting point for web users,
[27]
and the human-edited Yahoo Directory the most popular search engine,
[15]
receiving 95 million page views per day, triple that of rival Excite.
[25]
It also made many high-profile acquisitions. Yahoo began offering free
e-mail
from October 1997 after the acquisition of
RocketMail
, which was then renamed to Yahoo Mail.
[28]
In 1998, Yahoo replaced
AltaVista
as the crawler-based search engine underlying the Directory with
Inktomi
.
[29]
Yahoo's two biggest acquisitions were made in 1999:
Geocities
for $3.6 billion
[30]
and
Broadcast.com
for $5.7 billion.
[31]
Its stock price skyrocketed during the
dot-com bubble
, closing at an all-time high of $118.75/share on January 3, 2000. However, after the dot-com bubble burst, it reached a post-bubble low of $8.11 on September 26, 2001.
[32]
Yahoo began using
Google
for search in June 2000.
[33]
[34]
Over the next four years, it developed its own search technologies, which it began using in 2004 partly using technology from its $280 million acquisition of Inktomi in 2002.
[35]
In response to Google's
Gmail
, Yahoo began to offer unlimited email storage in 2007. In 2008, the company laid off hundreds of people as it struggled from competition.
[36]
In February 2008,
Microsoft
made an unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion.
[37]
[38]
Yahoo rejected the bid, claiming that it "substantially undervalues" the company and was not in the interest of its shareholders. Although Microsoft increased its bid to $47 billion, Yahoo insisted on another 10%+ increase to the offer and Microsoft cancelled the offer in May 2008.
[39]
[40]
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[42]
Carol Bartz
, who had no previous experience in Internet advertising, replaced Yang as CEO in January 2009.
[43]
[44]
In September 2011, after failing to meet targets, she was fired by chairman
Roy J. Bostock
; CFO
Tim Morse
was named as Interim CEO of the company.
[45]
[46]
In April 2012, after the appointment of
Scott Thompson
as CEO, several key executives resigned, including
chief product officer
Blake Irving
.
[47]
[48]
On April 4, 2012, Yahoo announced 2,000 layoffs,
[49]
or about 14% of its 14,100 workers by the end of year, expected to save around $375 million annually.
[50]
In an email sent to employees in April 2012, Thompson reiterated his view that customers should come first at Yahoo. He also completely reorganized the company.
[51]
On May 13, 2012, Thompson was fired and was replaced on an interim basis by
Ross Levinsohn
, recently appointed head of Yahoo's new Media group. Several associates of
Third Point Management
, including
Daniel S. Loeb
were nominated to the
board of directors
.
[52]
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[53]
[54]
Thompson's total compensation for his 130-day tenure with Yahoo was at least $7.3 million.
[55]
On July 15, 2012,
Marissa Mayer
was appointed president and CEO of Yahoo, effective July 17, 2012.
[56]
[57]
In June 2013, Yahoo acquired
blogging
site
Tumblr
for $1.1 billion in cash, with Tumblr's CEO and founder
David Karp
continuing to run the site.
[58]
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[61]
In July 2013, Yahoo announced plans to open an office in San Francisco.
[62]
On August 2, 2013, Yahoo acquired
Rockmelt
; its staff was retained, but all of its existing products were terminated.
[63]
Data collated by comScore during July 2013 revealed that, during the month, more people in the U.S. visited Yahoo websites than Google; the first time that Yahoo outperformed Google since 2011.
[64]
The data did not count mobile usage, nor Tumblr.
[65]
Mayer also hired
Katie Couric
to be the anchor of a new online news operation and started an online food magazine. However, by January 2014, doubts about Mayer's progress emerged when Mayer fired her own first major hire, Henrique de Castro.
[66]
On December 12, 2014, Yahoo acquired
video advertising
provider
BrightRoll
for $583 million.
[67]
On November 21, 2014, Yahoo acquired
Cooliris
.
[68]
In August 2023, it was announced Yahoo had acquired the
San Francisco
-headquartered social investing platform, Commonstock.
[69]
In April 2024, it was announced Yahoo had acquired the
AI
-driven news aggregator app,
Artifact
.
[70]
Decline, security breaches, and sale
By December 2015, Mayer was criticized as performance declined.
[71]
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[74]
Mayer was ranked as the least likable CEO in tech.
[75]
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On February 2, 2016, Mayer announced layoffs amounting to 15% of the Yahoo! workforce.
[77]
On July 25, 2016,
Verizon Communications
announced the acquisition of Yahoo's core Internet business for $4.83 billion.
[78]
[79]
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The deal excluded Yahoo's 15% stake in
Alibaba Group
and 35.5% stake in
Yahoo Japan
.
[82]
[83]
On February 21, 2017, as a result of the
Yahoo data breaches
, Verizon lowered its purchase price for Yahoo by $350 million and reached an agreement to share liabilities regarding the data breaches.
[84]
[85]
On June 13, 2017, Verizon completed the acquisition of Yahoo and
Marissa Mayer
resigned.
[86]
[87]
Yahoo, AOL, and
HuffPost
were to continue operating under their own names, under the umbrella of a new company, Oath Inc., later called
Verizon Media
.
[88]
[89]
The parts of the original Yahoo! Inc. which were not purchased by
Verizon Communications
were renamed
Altaba
, which was later liquidated, making a final distribution in October 2020.
[90]
In September 2021,
investment funds
managed by
Apollo Global Management
acquired 90% of Yahoo.
[91]
[92]
In November 2021, Yahoo announced that it was ending operations in mainland China due to the increasingly challenging business and legal environment.
[93]
Previously, the company discontinued China Yahoo! Mail on August 20, 2013.
[94]
In 2023, Yahoo announced that it would cut 20% of its workforce. The move followed mass layoffs from other tech giants including
Google
,
Microsoft
,
Twitter, Inc
,
Meta
, and
Amazon
. The company is set to lay off roughly 1,000 staff members of their 8,600 workers.
[95]
Chief executive officers
Eleven chief executives and interim leaders have led the Yahoo companies since 1995. They are:
Products and services
For a list of all current and defunct services offered by Yahoo, see
List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services
.
Data breaches
On September 22, 2016, Yahoo disclosed a
data breach
that occurred in late 2014, in which information associated with at least 500 million user accounts,
[101]
[102]
one of the largest breaches reported to date.
[103]
The United States indicted four men, including two employees of Russia's
Federal Security Service
(FSB), for their involvement in the hack.
[104]
[105]
On December 14, 2016, the company revealed that another separate data breach had occurred in 2014, with hackers obtaining sensitive account information, including security questions, to at least one billion accounts.
[106]
The company stated that hackers had utilized stolen internal software to forge
HTTP cookies
.
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[108]
On October 3, 2017, the company stated that all 3 billion of its user accounts were affected by the August 2013 theft.
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Criticism
DMCA notice to whistleblower
On November 30, 2009, Yahoo was criticized by the
Electronic Frontier Foundation
for sending a
DMCA
notice to
whistleblower
website "
Cryptome
" for publicly posting details, prices, and procedures on obtaining
private information
pertaining to Yahoo's subscribers.
[114]
Censorship of private emails affiliated with Occupy Wall Street protests
After some concerns over
censorship
of private emails regarding a website affiliated with
Occupy Wall Street
protests were raised, Yahoo responded with an apology and explained it as an accident.
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Partners and sponsorships
On September 11, 2001, Yahoo! announced its partnership with
FIFA
for the
2002 FIFA World Cup
and
2006 FIFA World Cup
tournaments. It was one of FIFA's 15 partners at the tournaments. The deal included co-branding the organization's websites.
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Yahoo! sponsored the
2012 Sundance Film Festival
.
[119]
NBC Sports Group
aligned with Yahoo Sports the same year with content and program offerings on mobile and desktop platforms.
[120]
Yahoo announced television video partnerships in 2013 with
Conde Nast
,
[121]
WWE
,
ABC NEWS
, and
CNBC
.
[122]
Yahoo entered into a 10-year collaboration in 2014, as a founding partner of
Levi's Stadium
, home of the
San Francisco 49ers
.
[123]
The
National Basketball Association
partnered with Yahoo Sports to stream games, offer virtual and augmented-reality fan experiences, and in 2018
NBA League Pass
.
[124]
[125]
Yahoo Sportsbook launched in November 2019, a collaboration with BetMGM.
[126]
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BuzzFeed
acquired
HuffPost
from Yahoo in November 2020, in a stock deal with Yahoo as a minority shareholder.
[128]
[129]
The NFL partnered with Yahoo in 2020, to introduce a new "Watch Together" function on the Yahoo Sports app for interactive co-viewing through a synchronized livestream of local and primetime NFL games.
[130]
The
Paley Center for Media
collaborated with
Verizon Media
to exclusively stream programs on Yahoo platforms beginning in 2020.
[131]
Yahoo became the main sponsor for the
Pramac Racing
team and the first title sponsor for the 2021 ESport/MotoGP Championship season.
[132]
Yahoo, the official partner for the September 2021
New York Fashion Week
event also unveiled sponsorship for the
Rebecca Minkoff
collection via a
NFT
space.
[133]
In September 2021, it was announced that Yahoo partnered with
Shopify
, connecting the e-commerce merchants on Yahoo Finance, AOL and elsewhere.
[134]
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