Yahoo
A popular search engine and portal in the 1990s.
It was created by two Electrical Engineering Ph.D. candidates, David Filo and Jerry Yang to answer their need for a central source of sites that were useful and of interest to them.
It started as a web directory but evolved into a web portal and search engine powered by Inktomi, and then later, by Google.
In 2010, Microsoft Bing took over in powering Yahoo Search.
FAQ
What happened to Yahoo?
Yahoo was born in April 1994. It was mostly human-powered, at least until June 2000 when a then-unknown search engine called Google began powering Yahoo’s organic search results.
That deal continued until 2004, when Yahoo started using its own search technology.
Since 2010, Yahoo’s organic search results have been powered by Microsoft’s search engine, Bing.
What is Yahoo's search engine ranking?
According to the data of Statcounter GlobalStats, Yahoo ranks #3 for worldwide search engine market share.