Yahoo! is an American internet providers headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and also owned by Verizon Media. The original Yahoo! firm was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and also was integrated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was just one of the pioneers of the very early Internet era in the 1990s.

It provides or supplied a Web website, online search engine Yahoo! Look, as well as relevant solutions, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Information, Yahoo! Money, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Responses, advertising, on-line mapping, video sharing, dream sports, and also its social media sites website. At its height it was just one of the most preferred sites in the United States. According to third-party web analytics service providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, Yahoo was one of the most widely read news and also media internet site-- with over 7 billion views per month-- ranking as the sixth-most-visited internet site globally in 2016.

When among the biggest web companies, Yahoo slowly decreased beginning in the late 2000s, and also in 2017 Verizon Communications got most of Yahoo's Internet business for $4.48 billion, omitting its stakes in Alibaba Group and also Yahoo! Japan, which were moved to Yahoo's successor firm Altaba.= Despite its decrease from prestige, Yahoo domain name web sites are still amongst one of the most popular, ranking 10th in the world according to the Alexa positions since October 2019.