List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services
Yahoo!, once one of the most popular web sites in the United States, is as of September 2021 a content sub-division of the namesake company Yahoo Inc., owned by Apollo Global Management (90%) and Verizon Communications (10%). It has offered a wide range of online sites and services since its inception in 1994, a majority of which are now defunct.
Yahoo!
home page
- Enables users to combine their favorite Yahoo features, content feeds, and information onto a single page.
My Yahoo!
oneSearch
Rivals.com
Yahoo! Developer Network
Yahoo! Entertainment (also branded Y! Entertainment)
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Life - formerly known as Yahoo! Lifestyle
Yahoo! Mail
- formerly known as Yahoo! Advertising, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Yahoo! Gemini, it provides online advertising services.
Yahoo! Native
Yahoo! News
Yahoo! Plus - a collection of individual subscriptions: Yahoo! Mail Plus, Yahoo! Finance Plus, Yahoo! Fantasy Plus, Yahoo! Plus Protect Home, Yahoo! Plus Protect Mobile, Yahoo! Plus Secure and Yahoo! Plus Support
Yahoo! Research
Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! Shopping - a
price comparison service
Yahoo! Sports
Yahoo! Weather
Yahoo offers a multi-lingual interface available in over 20 languages: Yahoo International. Yahoo! Japan is a separate entity, controlled by SoftBank.[1] Yahoo!Xtra, launched in 2007 in New Zealand is owned by Yahoo!7, a joint venture between Yahoo! and the Seven Network.
- A social networking service and blog host; launched in March 2005 and shut down in 2009. Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam's was shut down in 2012.[3]
Yahoo! 360°
Yahoo! Accessibility Lab - Improved access to the Internet for the disabled community.
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- A Q&A platform that was shut down in March 2006 due to the release of Yahoo! Answers. On May 16, 2013, a new version of Ask Yahoo was launched.
Ask Yahoo!
- A browser helper object that blocks pop-up ads for Internet Explorer developed by Beijing 3721 Technology, which was acquired in 2004.
Yahoo! Assistant
Yahoo! Autos - A car buying and with content from autoblog.com; shut down in 2016.[11]
search engine
Yahoo! Avatars - Allowed users to create for display on Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo! Answers; shut down on April 1, 2013.[12]
avatars
Yahoo! Aviate - Provided contextually relevant information on Android home screens; it was acquired in 2014 and shut down on March 8, 2018.
- A browser extension and mobile browser launched in May 2012 and discontinued June 28, 2013.[13][14]
Yahoo! Axis
- A translation service; shut down in May 2012 and replaced by Bing Translator.[15]
Yahoo! Babel Fish
- A directory of blogs; acquired in June 2005 and sold to Automattic, parent of WordPress.com in April 2009.[18] [19][20]
blo.gs
- A social bookmarking website; acquired on December 9, 2005, and sold to AVOS, owned by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, on April 27, 2011.[27][28][29]
del.icio.us
- A web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size and was the first product by Yahoo!; shut down in December 2014.[30]
Yahoo! Directory
- A location brokerage service created by Yahoo Brickhouse; launched in March 2008.
Fire Eagle
- A browser extension that allowed users to control media players from the browser window; shut down on July 1, 2013.[14]
FoxyTunes
- A directory of application software built by third-party developers using Yahoo! technologies; shut down on July 14, 2009.
Yahoo! Gallery
was a popular web hosting service founded in 1995 and was one of the first services to offer web pages to the public. In 1998, it was the third-most-browsed website.[33][34] Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 and shut it down in 2009, deleting 7 million web pages.[35][36] Many of those web pages are available at mirror sites such as the Internet Archive[37] and OOCities.org.[38]
Yahoo! GeoCities
- Offered geographic information services both directly and via third-party applications; shut down in August 2016.
Yahoo! GeoPlanet
- A Java based phone application with access to most of Yahoo! services; shut down on January 12, 2010.
Yahoo! Go
- News, ideas, and discussion about ways to promote an environmentally conscious lifestyle; shut down in 2012.
Yahoo! Green
Yahoo! Homes - Offered -related news, home prices.
Real estate
IntoNow from Yahoo! - Gave users the ability to almost instantly recognize TV content; acquired in Spring 2011 and shut down in March 2014.
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Jumpcut.com - A service where the uploaded photos and videos can be edited online; shut down in June 2009.
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Yahoo! Korea was the affiliate of Yahoo!, founded in September 1997. Its headquarters was the Yahoo! Tower on Teheranno in the Gangnam District of Seoul. On December 31, 2012, Yahoo! Korea shut down all its services and the website was redirected to the main Yahoo! search page.[46][47][48]
South Korean
- An Indonesian social networking service, allowing users to connect based on location. Shut down in August 2012.[49][50]
Koprol
- A professional network targeting college students, recent grads, employers, professionals, and alumni. Shut down in December 2008.[51]
Yahoo! Kickstart
- A children's version of the Yahoo! portal, it offered online safety tips and parental controls; shut down in April 2013 due to declining popularity.[52]
Yahoo! Kids
- Allowed users to broadcast videos in real time; shut down on December 3, 2008.
Yahoo! Live
- A pan-regional, Arabic-language hosting and social networking service acquired by Yahoo! on August 25, 2009; shut down on October 28, 2022.[53]
Yahoo! Maktoob
- A social networking service that allowed other users to edit any page; shut down on September 28, 2008.
Yahoo! Mash
Yahoo! Media Player / Web Player - A computer based media player that was based on Microsoft's and was similar to other competing media players such as MusicMatch or Winamp.
Windows Media Player
Yahoo! Mobile - Former carrier in the United States; shut down on August 31, 2021.
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Yahoo! Movies
- Provided Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming; shut down in September 2018 and consolidated into Yahoo! Entertainment's "Music" section.
Yahoo! Music
and Yahoo! Music Jukebox - Acquired from MusicMatch; sold to Rhapsody on October 31, 2008.
Yahoo! Music Unlimited
Yahoo! Next - An incubation ground for future Yahoo technologies.
Yahoo! OMG - An online tabloid with most content provided by and X17; shut down on January 6, 2014.[57]
Access Hollywood
- An online dating service with both free and paid versions; shut down in July 2010.[58]
Yahoo! Personals
- A free RSS mashup visual editor and hosting service; shut down on September 30, 2015.
Yahoo! Pipes
Yahoo! Profile / Yahoo Pulse - A directory of Yahoo users with their personal information.
- An advertising network that only accepted US based publishers; shut down on April 30, 2010.[60]
Yahoo! Publisher Network
- An email service acquired in 1997. Shut down but users were able to use an @rocketmail.com email address.[61]
Rocketmail
Yahoo! SearchMonkey - Allowed developers and site owners to use structured data to make Yahoo Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites; shut down in October 2010 as part of the and Yahoo search partnership.[65]
Microsoft
Shine - A site tailored for women between the ages of 25 and 54. Launched On March 31, 2008. It was shut down in 2014.[67]
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- Allowed users to view information on websites in Yahoo!'s search index; shut down on November 21, 2011.[68]
Yahoo! Site Explorer
Yahoo! Small Business - A service offered by the Yahoo! to get users start up and expand their business online; rebranded as Verizon Small Business Essentials in 2021.
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- Offered reviews and advice for buying and using electronics; integrated into Yahoo News in 2016.[71]
Yahoo! Tech
Yahoo! Transliteration - An online translator.
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- A cross-platform desktop widget runtime environment; shut down in March 2012.
Yahoo! Widgets
- A Taiwanese social networking service acquired by Yahoo in July 2007; shut down in December 2013.[77]
Wretch
- Formerly Associated Content (AC), distributed writing through its website and content partners, including Yahoo! News; shut down July 31, 2014.[78]