Yahoo! is an American web companies headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and also had by Verizon Media. The initial Yahoo! firm was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was integrated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was just one of the pioneers of the early Internet age in the 1990s.

It supplies or supplied a Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Browse, and relevant solutions, consisting of Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Financing, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Responses, advertising and marketing, on the internet mapping, video sharing, dream sporting activities, as well as its social media sites internet site. At its height it was one of the most popular websites in the United States. According to third-party internet analytics carriers Alexa and SimilarWeb, Yahoo was one of the most widely read information and also media site-- with over 7 billion sights each month-- ranking as the sixth-most-visited internet site internationally in 2016.

Once one of the biggest internet firms, Yahoo slowly decreased starting in the late 2000s, and in 2017 Verizon Communications got a lot of Yahoo's Internet business for $4.48 billion, excluding its risks in Alibaba Group and also Yahoo! Japan, which were transferred to Yahoo's successor business Altaba.= Despite its decline from importance, Yahoo domain name sites are still amongst one of the most prominent, ranking 10th on the planet according to the Alexa positions since October 2019.