Yahoo! is an American web providers headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and possessed by Verizon Media. The original Yahoo! business was founded by Jerry Yang and also David Filo in January 1994 and also was included on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the leaders of the very early Internet age in the 1990s.

It offers or given a Web site, online search engine Yahoo! Search, as well as associated services, including Yahoo! Directory site, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Financing, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising and marketing, on-line mapping, video clip sharing, fantasy sporting activities, and also its social media sites web site. At its height it was just one of one of the most popular websites in the United States. According to third-party web analytics suppliers Alexa as well as SimilarWeb, Yahoo was the most widely read news as well as media web site-- with over 7 billion sights monthly-- ranking as the sixth-most-visited internet site globally in 2016.

As soon as one of the biggest net business, Yahoo slowly decreased beginning in the late 2000s, and in 2017 Verizon Communications obtained a lot of Yahoo's Internet service for $4.48 billion, excluding its risks in Alibaba Group as well as Yahoo! Japan, which were moved to Yahoo's successor firm Altaba.= Despite its decline from importance, Yahoo domain internet sites are still amongst the most popular, ranking 10th on the planet according to the Alexa rankings as of October 2019.