Yahoo! is an American internet providers headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and also had by Verizon Media. The initial Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and also David Filo in January 1994 and also was included on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was among the pioneers of the very early Internet period in the 1990s.

It provides or offered a Web website, online search engine Yahoo! Look, as well as relevant solutions, including Yahoo! Directory site, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Information, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Teams, Yahoo! Responses, marketing, on the internet mapping, video clip sharing, fantasy sporting activities, and also its social networks internet site. At its elevation it was just one of one of the most prominent sites in the United States. According to third-party internet analytics carriers Alexa and also SimilarWeb, Yahoo was one of the most widely read news and media internet site-- with over 7 billion views monthly-- ranking as the sixth-most-visited internet site worldwide in 2016.

When among the largest net business, Yahoo slowly declined beginning in the late 2000s, and in 2017 Verizon Communications obtained most of Yahoo's Internet service for $4.48 billion, excluding its stakes in Alibaba Group as well as Yahoo! Japan, which were transferred to Yahoo's successor company Altaba.= Despite its decline from prestige, Yahoo domain name websites are still amongst one of the most prominent, ranking 10th on the planet according to the Alexa rankings since October 2019.