Yahoo

Yahoo is a media technology company based in New York City that connects users with a wide range of interests, including finance, sports, shopping, gaming, and news. It operates as a comprehensive web portal, offering services such as Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo News. Additionally, Yahoo provides a platform for businesses to engage in advertising and marketing, leveraging its extensive media reach. The company also includes Yahoo! Store, which offers tools for building and managing e-commerce sites. By combining innovative technologies with diverse content, Yahoo aims to facilitate connections among its users and deliver relevant information and services.

Brian Beglin

Senior Director, Corporate Strategy

Jim Lanzone

CEO

Monica Vorn Mijaleski

CFO

Jerry Chih Yuan Yang

Co-Founder

Past deals in Search Engine

Rockmelt

Acquisition in 2013
Rockmelt is a social web browser developed on the Chromium platform, offering seamless integration with major social media networks, particularly Facebook and Twitter. The browser features a unique interface known as "Edges," which displays online friends and followed feeds with real-time update notifications. Rockmelt distinguishes itself with a dedicated search field that presents comprehensive search results in a dropdown format, enhancing user experience by allowing quick navigation between results from a single query. Additionally, the browser includes its own URL shortener, me.lt. It is compatible with both Windows and OS X operating systems. Rockmelt is supported by prominent figures in the tech industry, including Marc Andreessen and principal engineer Robert John Churchill, known for his previous work on Netscape Navigator.

AltaVista

Acquisition in 2013
AltaVista was one of the first Internet search engines. In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, and in October of that year, Overture itself was taken over by [Yahoo](/organization/yahoo). In August 2004, shortly after Yahoo's acquisition, the AltaVista site started using the Yahoo Search technology. Today the AltaVista site no longer exists. The URL www.altavista.com now diverts to the Yahoo website.

MileWise

Acquisition in 2013
Milewise is a travel planning company that provides a search engine service for frequent travelers which shows various ways to pay for flights using cash, airline miles, and hotel and credit card points. The search engine also tracks reward program balances and combines them with user’s travel and redemption preferences to recommend the best way to pay. Milewise was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, United States. As of May 9, 2013, it was acquired by [Yahoo! Inc](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yahoo).

Xoopit

Acquisition in 2009
Xoopit is an email organizational tool designed to enhance the way users manage their email content. It employs an innovative indexing architecture similar to that of a web search engine, enabling users to efficiently retrieve meaningful information from their archived emails. Xoopit offers several features, including comprehensive email content search, the ability to incorporate links and maps from the web into emails, and a visual display of relevant information about senders in a conversation thread, such as profile pictures, recent exchanges, and shared attachments. By integrating personal indexing and search capabilities into everyday applications like webmail, Xoopit facilitates the browsing and sharing of files, photos, and videos, ultimately improving users' email management experience.

BuzzTracker

Acquisition in 2007
BuzzTracker is a website that aggregates news and tracks blogs and other content sources. It was acquired by Yahoo! on September 14, 2007 and merged into Yahoo! News.

SearchFox

Acquisition in 2006
SearchFox is a company that was acquired by Yahoo in 2006.

The All-Seeing Eye

Acquisition in 2004
The All-Seeing Eye is a company that was acquired by Yahoo in 2004.

FareChase

Acquisition in 2004
FareChase, Inc. provides Web automation technologies for the travel industry. The company offers a travel search engine to scour the Web for flights and hotels for shoppers. Its technology enables automated online inventory aggregation for handling flights, hotels, and car rentals. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in New York, New York. As of July 2, 2004, FareChase, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Yahoo! Inc.

3721 Network Software

Acquisition in 2004
3721 Internet Assistant is a software company that develops Chinese keyword online search technology. The company was acquired by Yahoo Inc. It was founded in 1998 and is based in Beijing, China.

Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions

Acquisition in 2003
Yahoo Search Marketing provides a keyword-based "Pay per click" or "Sponsored search" Internet advertising service. Yahoo began to offer this service after it acquired GoTo that became Overture Services. GoTo was an Idealab spin off and was the first company to provide successfully a pay-for-placement search service following previous attempts that users did not receive well..

AlltheWeb

Acquisition in 2003
AlltheWeb combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine.

Inktomi

Acquisition in 2002
Inktomi Corporation was a California-based company that provided software for Internet service providers. It was founded in 1996 by UC Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and graduate student Paul Gauthier. The company was initially founded based on the real-world success of the search engine they developed at the university. After the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Inktomi was acquired by [Yahoo](/organization/yahoo).

Cadê

Acquisition in 2002
Cadê was the first Brazilian branch of the Yahoo! search engine.

InfoUSA

Series A in 2000
Info USA offers a full range of affordable sales and marketing solutions to help businesses acquire, manage, and retain customers. These solutions include mailing lists, sales leads, search engine marketing, email marketing, direct mail marketing, data enhancement, and online marketing. Info USA is based in Papillion, Nebraska.
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