Yahoo! is an American web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, as well as had by Verizon Media. The original Yahoo! business was founded by Jerry Yang as well as David Filo in January 1994 and also was included on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet period in the 1990s.

It offers or given a Web portal, internet search engine Yahoo! Search, as well as relevant services, including Yahoo! Directory site, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Money, Yahoo! Teams, Yahoo! Solutions, marketing, online mapping, video sharing, dream sports, and also its social media sites website. At its height it was one of the most prominent sites in the United States. According to third-party internet analytics service providers Alexa as well as SimilarWeb, Yahoo was one of the most widely read information and media website-- with over 7 billion views monthly-- ranking as the sixth-most-visited site internationally in 2016.

As soon as one of the biggest net firms, Yahoo gradually decreased starting in the late 2000s, and also in 2017 Verizon Communications got most of Yahoo's Internet company for $4.48 billion, omitting its stakes in Alibaba Group and Yahoo! Japan, which were moved to Yahoo's follower company Altaba.= Despite its decrease from importance, Yahoo domain web sites are still amongst the most preferred, ranking 10th in the world according to the Alexa rankings since October 2019.