Yahoo! is an American web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and also possessed by Verizon Media. The initial Yahoo! firm was founded by Jerry Yang and also David Filo in January 1994 and also was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the leaders of the very early Internet period in the 1990s.

It offers or offered a Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Browse, and also related solutions, consisting of Yahoo! Directory site, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Information, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Solutions, marketing, on the internet mapping, video sharing, fantasy sporting activities, and its social media sites website. At its elevation it was among one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to third-party web analytics providers Alexa as well as SimilarWeb, Yahoo was one of the most widely read information and also media site-- with over 7 billion views monthly-- ranking as the sixth-most-visited website around the world in 2016.

As soon as one of the biggest internet business, Yahoo gradually decreased starting in the late 2000s, as well as in 2017 Verizon Communications acquired a lot of Yahoo's Internet company for $4.48 billion, omitting its stakes in Alibaba Group as well as Yahoo! Japan, which were moved to Yahoo's successor firm Altaba.= Despite its decrease from prominence, Yahoo domain web sites are still amongst the most preferred, ranking 10th worldwide according to the Alexa positions as of October 2019.