Search results
Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites have a search facility for online databases.
- Yandex
Yandex Search (Russian: Яндекс) is a search engine owned by...
- Gigablast
Gigablast was an American free and open-source web search...
- Dogpile
Dogpile began operation in November 1996. [4] The site was...
- DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is an American software company that offers a...
- Grub
Grub was an open source distributed search crawler platform....
- MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler was originally developed in 1994 at the...
- TorSearch
Tor [6] is a free overlay network for enabling anonymous...
- Comparison of Web Search Engines
Web search engines are listed in tables below for comparison...
- List of Search Engines by Popularity
Some engines suggest queries when the user is typing in the...
- Searx
Searx (/ s ɜːr k s /; stylized as searX) is a free and...
- Yandex
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- Data Breaches
- Criticism
- Sponsorship
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Founding
In January 1994, Yang and Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web". The site was a human-edited web directory, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In March 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!" and became known as the Yahoo Directory.The "yahoo.com" domain was registered on January 18, 1995. The word "yahoo" i...
Expansion
Yahoo grew rapidly throughout the 1990s. Yahoo became a public company via an initial public offering in April 1996 and its stock price rose 600% within two years. Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal, putting it in competition with services including Excite, Lycos, and America Online. By 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting point for web users, and the human-edited Yahoo Directory the most popular search engine, receiving 95 million page views per day,...
Decline, security breaches, and sale
By December 2015, Mayer was criticized as performance declined.Mayer was ranked as the least likable CEO in tech. On February 2, 2016, Mayer announced layoffs amounting to 15% of the Yahoo! workforce. On July 25, 2016, Verizon Communications announced the acquisition of Yahoo's core Internet business for $4.83 billion. The deal excluded Yahoo's 15% stake in Alibaba Group and 35.5% stake in Yahoo Japan. On February 21, 2017, as a result of the Yahoo data breaches, Verizon lowered its purchase...
For a list of all current and defunct services offered by Yahoo, see List of Yahoo-owned sites and services.
On September 22, 2016, Yahoo disclosed a data breach that occurred in late 2014, in which information associated with at least 500 million user accounts, one of the largest breaches reported to date. The United States indicted four men, including two employees of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), for their involvement in the hack. On Decembe...
DMCA notice to whistleblower
On November 30, 2009, Yahoo was criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for sending a DMCA notice to whistleblower website "Cryptome" for publicly posting details, prices, and procedures on obtaining private information pertaining to Yahoo's subscribers.
Censorship of private emails affiliated with Occupy Wall Street protests
After some concerns over censorship of private emails regarding a website affiliated with Occupy Wall Streetprotests were raised, Yahoo responded with an apology and explained it as an accident.
On September 11, 2001, Yahoo! announced its partnership with FIFA for the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2006 FIFA World Cuptournaments. It was one of FIFA's 15 partners at the tournaments. The deal included co-branding the organization's websites. Yahoo! sponsored the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
The first Yahoo logo was established upon foundation of the company in 1994. It consists of the "Yahoo" wordmark which is colored black and is using the Times New Romanfont, but it was later changed. In March 1995, when the company changed its name to Yahoo, it introduced another logo which is briefly changed to a more elaborate text that includes ...
Media related to Yahoo!at Wikimedia CommonsSearch is a search engine owned and operated by Yahoo!, using Microsoft Bing to power results. Originally, "Yahoo! Search" referred to a Yahoo!-provided interface that sent queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of websites. The results were presented to the user under the Yahoo! brand.
Web search engines are listed in tables below for comparison purposes. The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software.
On February 18, 2004, Yahoo! dropped Google-powered results and returned to using its own technology to provide search results. [39] In March 2004, Yahoo! launched a paid inclusion program whereby commercial websites were guaranteed listings on the Yahoo! search engine after payment. [40]
This page provides a full timeline of web search engines, starting from the WHOis in 1982, the Archie search engine in 1990, and subsequent developments in the field. It is complementary to the history of web search engines page that provides more qualitative detail on the history.
Sep 4, 2024 · 1. Bing.com. 2. Perplexity.ai. 3. You.com. 4. SearchGPT. 5. Yep.com. 6. Openverse. AI-Powered Search Engines. Where search engines include AI chatbots based on large language models, they...
