Yahoo! founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students which began as began as a hobby and is now recognized as a global brand for information retrieval and shopping online. Offering one of the most comprehensive networks of key services for Web users from around the world and the first online navigational guide on the Web, Yahoo! is the leader in traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! reaches over 237 million unique users in 25 countries and 13 languages.

Technology- Index by Google Crawler: the main results are compiled Spidering the web. Directory: the main and mainstay directory requires human intervention. Yahoo has both a human-edited directory and a spider based index provided by Google. Sponsored results are provided by Overture and appear at the top of the Results Page and additional entries are presented at the bottom of the page whenever a next page is available.

Ownership: Yahoo!

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