Yahoo! is an American internet companies headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, as well as had by Verizon Media. The original Yahoo! firm was founded by Jerry Yang and also David Filo in January 1994 and also was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was among the leaders of the very early Internet age in the 1990s.

It gives or offered a Web website, internet search engine Yahoo! Browse, as well as relevant services, including Yahoo! Directory site, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Information, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Teams, Yahoo! Answers, advertising and marketing, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sporting activities, and also its social media website. At its height it was among the most preferred websites in the United States. According to third-party internet analytics service providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, Yahoo was the most widely read information and media web site-- with over 7 billion sights monthly-- ranking as the sixth-most-visited internet site around the world in 2016.

As soon as one of the biggest internet firms, Yahoo gradually declined starting in the late 2000s, and also in 2017 Verizon Communications got the majority of Yahoo's Internet organisation for $4.48 billion, omitting its risks in Alibaba Group and also Yahoo! Japan, which were transferred to Yahoo's successor company Altaba.= Despite its decline from importance, Yahoo domain internet sites are still amongst one of the most popular, ranking 10th in the world according to the Alexa positions as of October 2019.