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'''Yahoo!''' is a public corporation that offers a multitude of Internet services to users all around the world. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Yahoo! is known for its services and products such as search engine and web portals.

'''Yahoo!''' is a public corporation that offers a multitude of Internet services to users all around the world. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Yahoo! is known for its services and products such as search engine and web portals.

A website created by [[David Filo]] and [[Jerry Yang]] and named as “David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web” became Yahoo in 1994.<ref>[http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/22707.html Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web]</ref>

A website created by [[David Filo]] and [[Jerry Yang]] and named as “David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web” became Yahoo! in 1994.<ref>[http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/22707.html Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web]</ref>

==History of Yahoo!==

==History of Yahoo!==

* '''1995 January 18''' - The domain name yahoo.com was created.<ref>[http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=yahoo&tld=com Whois.Net Information for yahoo.com]</ref>

* '''1995 January 18''' - The domain name yahoo.com was created.<ref>[http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=yahoo&tld=com Whois.Net Information for yahoo.com]</ref>

* '''1996 April''' - An IPO was launched by Yahoo! with 49 employees<ref>[http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html The History of Yahoo! - How It All Started]</ref>.

* '''1996 April''' - An IPO was launched by Yahoo! with 49 employees<ref>[http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html The History of Yahoo! - How It All Started]</ref>.

* '''1997 September''' - Yahoo acquired Net Controls<ref>[http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/info/faq.html Yahoo! Media Relations]</ref> from which Yahoo! Search was derived.

* '''1997 September''' - Yahoo! acquired Net Controls<ref>[http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/info/faq.html Yahoo! Media Relations]</ref> from which Yahoo! Search was derived.

* '''1997 October''' - Yahoo acquired Four11 and its web service mail was called Yahoo! Mail.<ref>[http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release123.html Yahoo! Media Relations]</ref>

* '''1997 October''' - Yahoo! acquired Four11 and its web service mail was called Yahoo! Mail.<ref>[http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release123.html Yahoo! Media Relations]</ref>

* '''1998''' - Yahoo! acquired Classic Games, Sportasy, Vaiweb, Webcal, Yoyodyne and hyperparallel.

* '''1998''' - Yahoo! acquired Classic Games, Sportasy, Vaiweb, Webcal, Yoyodyne and hyperparallel.

* '''1999''' - Broadcast.com, Encompass, GeoCities and Online Anywhere were acquired.

* '''1999''' - Broadcast.com, Encompass, GeoCities and Online Anywhere were acquired.

* '''2002''' - Inktomi Corporation and Hotjobs.com mergerd with Yahoo!.

* '''2002''' - Inktomi Corporation and Hotjobs.com mergerd with Yahoo!.

* '''2003 June 14''' - Yahoo! acquired Overture Services, Inc.<ref>[http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release1102.html Yahoo! To Acquire Overture]</ref> and the derived product was Yahoo! Search Marketing.

* '''2003 June 14''' - Yahoo! acquired Overture Services, Inc.<ref>[http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release1102.html Yahoo! To Acquire Overture]</ref> and the derived product was Yahoo! Search Marketing.

* '''2004''' - Yahoo! began to use its own technology for searching the net.<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/2100-1024_3-5160710.html cnet News-Yahoo dumps Google search technology]</ref>

* '''2004''' - Yahoo! began to use its own technology for searching the net.<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/2100-1024_3-5160710.html cnet News-Yahoo! dumps Google search technology]</ref>

* '''2005''' - Yahoo! acquired another 10 companies; including: Verdisoft, Ludicorp, Stadeon, TeRespondo, Dialpad, blo.gs, Konfabulator, Upcoming.org, Whereonearth and del.icio.us and various products like Flickr (from Ludicorp), Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Mobile, Yahoo! voice, Yahoo! 360°, Yahoo! Local etc were created.

* '''2005''' - Yahoo! acquired another 10 companies; including: Verdisoft, Ludicorp, Stadeon, TeRespondo, Dialpad, blo.gs, Konfabulator, Upcoming.org, Whereonearth and del.icio.us and various products like Flickr (from Ludicorp), Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Mobile, Yahoo! voice, Yahoo! 360°, Yahoo! Local etc were created.

* '''2006''' - A major year, as Webjay, SearchFox, Meedio, Jumpcut.com, Adlnterax, Bix.com, Kenet Works and Wretch were acquired.

* '''2006''' - A major year, as Webjay, SearchFox, Meedio, Jumpcut.com, Adlnterax, Bix.com, Kenet Works and Wretch were acquired.

==Issues==

==Issues==

===.ie Disruptions===

===.ie Disruptions===

On October 9th, 2012, both [[Google]] and Yahoo experienced prolonged disruptions in their services under the [[.ie]] [[ccTLD|country code top-level domain name]] (ccTLD). Technology.ie was the first party to report that Google's nameservers had experienced an "unauthorised change" that directed them to fraudulent nameservers in Indonesia.<ref name="sociable">[http://sociable.co/web/google-ie-and-yahoo-ie-unavailable-after-unauthorised-change-of-nameservers/ Google.ie and Yahoo.ie unavailable after "unauthorised change" to nameservers], Sociable.co. Published 9 October 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2012.</ref>

On October 9th, 2012, both [[Google]] and Yahoo! experienced prolonged disruptions in their services under the [[.ie]] [[ccTLD|country code top-level domain name]] (ccTLD). Technology.ie was the first party to report that Google's nameservers had experienced an "unauthorised change" that directed them to fraudulent nameservers in Indonesia.<ref name="sociable">[http://sociable.co/web/google-ie-and-yahoo-ie-unavailable-after-unauthorised-change-of-nameservers/ Google.ie and Yahoo.ie unavailable after "unauthorised change" to nameservers], Sociable.co. Published 9 October 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2012.</ref>

Though the Irish ccTLD registry, [[IEDR]], initially stated that "an unauthorised change was made to two .ie domains on an independent registrar’s account which resulted in a change of DNS nameservers", on November 9th, it stated that a further investigation confirmed that "neither the Registrar of the affected domains nor its systems had any responsibility for this incident." The registry further said that hackers probed its system for 25 days before breaking in via a vulnerability in its Joomla content management system, which enabled the attackers to access back-end databases and upload malicious PHP scripts.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/10965-iedr-admits-blame-for-hack-that-brought-down-google-and-yahoo IEDR admits blame for hack that brought down Google and Yahoo], DomainIncite.com. Published 9 November 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2012.</ref>

Though the Irish ccTLD registry, [[IEDR]], initially stated that "an unauthorised change was made to two .ie domains on an independent registrar’s account which resulted in a change of DNS nameservers", on November 9th, it stated that a further investigation confirmed that "neither the Registrar of the affected domains nor its systems had any responsibility for this incident." The registry further said that hackers probed its system for 25 days before breaking in via a vulnerability in its Joomla content management system, which enabled the attackers to access back-end databases and upload malicious PHP scripts.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/10965-iedr-admits-blame-for-hack-that-brought-down-google-and-yahoo IEDR admits blame for hack that brought down Google and Yahoo], DomainIncite.com. Published 9 November 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2012.</ref>

===Small Business===

===Small Business===

Small business can be established by opening online stores at varied platforms offered by Yahoo such as Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, Yahoo! Business Email, Yahoo! Store, and Yahoo! Domains.

Small business can be established by opening online stores at varied platforms offered by Yahoo! such as Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, Yahoo! Business Email, Yahoo! Store, and Yahoo! Domains.

===Yahoo! Meme===

===Yahoo! Meme===

===Yahoo! Koprol===

===Yahoo! Koprol===

Indonesia’s primary social networking site which is location based, Koprol, was acquired by yahoo quite recently. Since then, it has seen around 20-fold increase in the number of people using this site. It has a large number of members from America, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. But almost 80 to 90 percent of its users are from Indonesia. It is now known as Yahoo! Koprol. It has been successful in creating around 3000 business profiles which are mostly medium or small sized business enterprises with the help of its feature called “Koprol for business” launched in February. Some of the interesting features of Koprol are “People Finder”, “Onboarding”, “Hovercard”, “Hot-Tags”, “Koprol Stamp”, etc.<ref>[http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/07/08/yahoo-koprol-sees-users-increase-20-fold-a-year.html]</ref>

Indonesia’s primary social networking site which is location based, Koprol, was acquired by Yahoo! in 2011. Since then, it has seen around 20-fold increase in the number of people using this site. It has a large number of members from America, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. But almost 80 to 90 percent of its users are from Indonesia. It is now known as Yahoo! Koprol. It has been successful in creating around 3000 business profiles which are mostly medium or small sized business enterprises with the help of its feature called “Koprol for business” launched in February. Some of the interesting features of Koprol are “People Finder”, “Onboarding”, “Hovercard”, “Hot-Tags”, “Koprol Stamp”, etc.<ref>[http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/07/08/yahoo-koprol-sees-users-increase-20-fold-a-year.html]</ref>

===Y Connect===

===Y Connect===

Y Connect is a tool built by yahoo to track users around the internet world in a better way. The purpose is to provide more modified advertisements so that the advertisers can get better options to target upon. A user can register and then log in into websites with just a click on the yahoo button provided by them. As they log in, all the things that they do in the website is shared with yahoo and can be used for advertising in a better way.<ref>[http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-to-offer-y-connect-while-facebook-undergoes-privacy-scrutiny-53151]</ref>

Y Connect is a tool built by Yahoo! to track users around the internet world in a better way. The purpose is to provide more modified advertisements so that the advertisers can get better options to target upon. A user can register and then log in into websites with just a click on the "yahoo" button provided by them. As they log in, all the things that they do in the website is shared with Yahoo! and can be used for advertising in a better way.<ref>[http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-to-offer-y-connect-while-facebook-undergoes-privacy-scrutiny-53151]</ref>

===Yahoo! Messenger===

===Yahoo! Messenger===

One of the longest established and VoIP client, Yahoo Messenger has a lot of powerful features for its users. You can drag and drop, import contacts from IM, social networking sites and other web accounts of your friends who are a yahoo messenger user. You can also see videos and pictures that your friend posts in a public URL in the chat window provided. The latest, YM 10 has a few visual enhancements so that you can do video chatting. You can also see updates from your pals in the Tweaks window which is used as a newsfeed. So YM is a feature rich, easy to use chatting tool which is continuously improving.<ref>[http://download.cnet.com/Yahoo-Messenger/3000-2150_4-10029188.html]</ref>

One of the longest established and VoIP client, Yahoo! Messenger has a lot of powerful features for its users. You can drag and drop, import contacts from IM, social networking sites and other web accounts of your friends who are a Yahoo! Messenger user. You can also see videos and pictures that your friend posts in a public URL in the chat window provided. The latest, YM 10 has a few visual enhancements so that you can do video chatting. You can also see updates from your pals in the Tweaks window which is used as a newsfeed. So YM is a feature rich, easy to use chatting tool which is continuously improving.<ref>[http://download.cnet.com/Yahoo-Messenger/3000-2150_4-10029188.html]</ref>

==Acquisitions==

==Acquisitions==