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Yahoo
American web portal
This article is about the web portal. For the company, see Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present). For the now-unaffiliated Japanese company, see Yahoo Japan. For other uses, see Yahoo (disambiguation).
Yahoo (, styled yahoo! in its logo)[4] is an American web servicesportal. The web portal provides search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native. It is operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon.
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.[5] However, its use declined in the 2010s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google.[6][7]
Etymology
The word "yahoo" is a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle"[8] or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".[9] T
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On June 18th, I got the call.
“I’m doing a CEO search. It’s a Fortune 500 company. It’s in the consumer Internet space. It’s in Silicon Valley—you wouldn’t even have to move. It’s the perfect job for you. The board is asking for you by name. Are you interested? It’s Yahoo.”
I had received similar calls before, and I wasn’t interested. I loved my job. I was proud of my role in growing Google, and I loved every new challenge that was thrown my way. But this time it was Yahoo, and that changed everything. I started using Yahoo before it was even called Yahoo. Yahoo defined the Internet. They helped get Google started. Yes, they had their ups-and-downs—but, the potential was huge. The alignment with my experience and career was uncanny: search, email, homepage, news, finance, maps, social, mobile and more.
However, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion that I would or could make it work when I got that first phone call. At the time, I was pregnant, and I was thrilled. My soon-to-be-born son already had the most delightful personality—jumping and kicking hundreds of times a day, making me
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