Non-Yahoo! branded

• Associated Content
  Associated Content
  Associated Content is a division of Yahoo that focuses on online publishing. Yahoo's Associated Content distributes a large variety of writing through its website and content partners, including Yahoo News.-History:...
  
  

Associated Content (AC) is an online publisher and distributor of original content. On May 19, 2010, Yahoo announced that it would purchase Associated Content for slightly more than $100 million.

• Fire Eagle
  Fire Eagle
  Fire Eagle is a Yahoo! owned service that acts as a store for a user's location. It was created at Yahoo Brickhouse by a team which included among others Tom Coates, Simon Willison, and Seth Fitzsimmons....
  
  

Fire Eagle is a location brokerage service created by Yahoo! Brickhouse and launched at ETech on 5 March 2008.

• Flickr
  Flickr
  Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
  
  

Flickr is a popular photo sharing service which Yahoo! purchased on 29 March 2005.

• FoxyTunes
  FoxyTunes
  FoxyTunes is a browser extension which was acquired by Yahoo! on February 4, 2008. The program allows the user to control media players from the browser window...
  
  

FoxyTunes is a browser extension which allows the user to control media players from the browser window.

• Upcoming

Upcoming is a social event calendar which Yahoo! acquired on 5 October 2005 (formerly upcoming.org).

• Wretch
  Wretch
  Wretch may refer to:*Wretch , an album by Kyuss*Wretch , a Taiwanese web log community.*Wretch, a song from the Protest the Hero album Fortress...
  
  

Wretch

Wretch

Wretch may refer to:*Wretch , an album by Kyuss*Wretch , a Taiwanese web log community.*Wretch, a song from the Protest the Hero album Fortress...

 is a Taiwanese social networking service acquired by Yahoo.

• Rivals.com
  Rivals.com
  Rivals.com is a network of websites that focus mainly on college football and basketball recruiting. The network was started in 1996 and currently employs more than 300 personnel.-Schools:The individual collegiate sites can be found...
  
  

College recruiting website.

Yahoo! branded

• Yahoo! Advertising

A combination of advertising services owned by Yahoo!.

• Yahoo! Answers
  Yahoo! Answers
  Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer site or a knowledge market launched by Yahoo! on June 28, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users...
  
  

Yahoo! Answers is a service that allows users to ask and answer questions other users post. It competes with Ask MetaFilter

MetaFilter

MetaFilter, known as MeFi to its members, is a community weblog whose purpose is to share links and discuss content that users have discovered on the web.-Community:MetaFilter was founded by Matthew Haughey in 1999...

. Yahoo! Answers uses a points system whereby points are awarded for asking and answering questions, and deducted for deleting a question or answer, or getting reported.

• Yahoo! Avatars

Yahoo! Avatars allows users to create personalized character images, also known as avatar

Avatar (computing)

In computing, an avatar is the graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego or character. It may take either a three-dimensional form, as in games or virtual worlds, or a two-dimensional form as an icon in Internet forums and other online communities. It can also refer to a text...

s, which are displayed on Yahoo! Messenger

Yahoo! Messenger

Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!...

 and Yahoo! Answers

Yahoo! Answers

Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer site or a knowledge market launched by Yahoo! on June 28, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users...

.

• Yahoo! Autos
• Yahoo! Babel Fish

Yahoo! Babel Fish is a translation service.

• Yahoo! Bookmarks

Yahoo! Bookmarks is a private bookmarking service. All Users from Yahoo MyWeb were transferred to this service.

• Yahoo! Developer Network
  Yahoo! Developer Network
  Yahoo! Developer Network is Yahoo!'s site for developers, where it offers a free access to its collection of web services , in addition to multiple software development resources.-Yahoo! APIs:...
  
  

Yahoo! Developer Network offers resources for software developer

Software developer

A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software. A software developer may take part in design, computer programming, or software project management...

s which use Yahoo! technologies and Web services.

• Yahoo! Directory
  Yahoo! Directory
  The Yahoo! Directory is a web directory that rivals the Open Directory Project in size. The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering. When Yahoo! changed to crawler-based listings for its main results in October 2002, the human-edited directory's significance dropped, but it was still being updated in...
  
  

Yahoo! was first formed as a web directory

Web directory

A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links....

 of web sites, organized into a hierarchy

Hierarchy

A hierarchy is an arrangement of items in which the items are represented as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another...

 of categories

Categorization

Categorization is the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated and understood. Categorization implies that objects are grouped into categories, usually for some specific purpose. Ideally, a category illuminates a relationship between the subjects and objects of knowledge...

 and subcategories, which became the Yahoo! Directory. Once a human-compiled directory, Yahoo! Directory now offers two methods of inclusion: Standard, which is free and only available for non-commercial categories, and Express, which charges over US$300 for a quick inclusion in the directory.

• Yahoo! Finance
  Yahoo! Finance
  Yahoo! Finance is a service from Yahoo! that provides financial information. It is the top financial news and research website in the United States, with more than 23 million visitors in February 2010, according to comScore....
  
  

Yahoo! Finance offers financial information, including stock quotes and stock exchange

Stock exchange

A stock exchange is an entity that provides services for stock brokers and traders to trade stocks, bonds, and other securities. Stock exchanges also provide facilities for issue and redemption of securities and other financial instruments, and capital events including the payment of income and...

 rates.

• Yahoo! Games
  Yahoo! Games
  Yahoo! Games is the section of the Yahoo! website in which Yahoo! users can play games either with other users or by themselves. The games on the website are typically Java applets or quick Flash games, but there are others which require a download. Many of the games that require a download...
  
  

Yahoo! Games allows users to play games, such as chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

, billiards

Billiards

Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...

, checkers and backgammon

Backgammon

Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice, and players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits...

, against each other. Users can join one of various rooms and find players in these rooms to play with. Most of the games are Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

 applet

Applet

In computing, an applet is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a larger program, often as a plug-in. An applet typically also refers to Java applets, i.e., programs written in the Java programming language that are included in a web page...

s, although some require the user to download the game, and some games are single-player. Yahoo! acquired a one person effort called ClassicGames.com in 1997, which became Yahoo! Games.

• Yahoo! Groups
  Yahoo! Groups
  Yahoo! Groups is one of the world’s largest collections of online discussion boards. The term Groups refers to Internet communication which is a hybrid between an electronic mailing list and a threaded Internet forum, in other words, Group messages can be read and posted by e-mail or on the Group's...
  
  

Yahoo! Groups is a free groups and mailing list

Mailing list

A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is referred to as "the mailing list", or simply "the...

 service which competes with Google Groups

Google Groups

Google Groups is a service from Google Inc. that supports discussion groups, including many Usenet newsgroups, based on common interests. The service was started in 1995 as Deja News, and was transitioned to Google Groups after a February 2001 buyout....

. It was formed when Yahoo! acquired eGroups

EGroups

eGroups.com was an email list management web site. The site allowed users to create their own mailing lists and allowed others to sign up for membership on the list. The web site provided archives of the messages as well as list management functionality. Each group also had a shared calendar, file...

 in August 2000. Groups are sorted in categories similar to the Yahoo! Directory

Yahoo! Directory

The Yahoo! Directory is a web directory that rivals the Open Directory Project in size. The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering. When Yahoo! changed to crawler-based listings for its main results in October 2002, the human-edited directory's significance dropped, but it was still being updated in...

. Yahoo! Groups also offers other features such as a photographic album, file storage and a calendar.

• Yahoo! Kids
  Yahoo! Kids
  Yahoo! Kids is a public web portal provided by Yahoo! to find age appropriate online content for children between the ages of 6 and 12. The website can be used for both educational and entertainment purposes. It was established in March 1996 by Yahoo! to give children a venue to find appropriate,...
  
  

Yahoo! Kids is a children's version of the Yahoo! portal. It also offers some online safety tips.

• Yahoo! Koprol

Koprol, since 25 May 2010 called Yahoo! Koprol, is a Indonesian social networking service, allowing users to connect based on location. Mobile users can use the site as a positioning service, without the need for a GPS receiver. Once logged in, users can see other members who were in the same location.

• Yahoo! Local

Find local businesses and services and view the results on a map. Refine and sort results by distance, topic, or other factors. Read ratings and reviews. Uses hCalendar

HCalendar

hCalendar is a microformat standard for displaying a semantic HTML representation of iCalendar-format calendar information about an event, on web pages, using HTML classes and rel attributes....

 and hCard

HCard

hCard is a microformat for publishing the contact details of people, companies, organizations, and places, in HTML, Atom, RSS, or arbitrary XML...

 microformat

Microformat

A microformat is a web-based approach to semantic markup which seeks to re-use existing HTML/XHTML tags to convey metadata and other attributes in web pages and other contexts that support HTML, such as RSS...

s, so that event and contact details can be downloaded directly into calendar and address-book applications.

• Yahoo! Mail
  Yahoo! Mail
  Yahoo! Mail is a web mail service provided by Yahoo!. It was inaugurated in 1997, and, according to comScore, Yahoo! Mail was the second largest web-based email service with 273.1 million users as of November 2010....
  
  

Yahoo! acquired Four11 on 8 October 1997, and its webmail service Rocketmail

Rocketmail

RocketMail was one of the first major, free webmail services. The service was originally a product of Four11 Corporation. For a brief time, RocketMail battled with Hotmail for the number-one spot among free webmail services. Four11, including RocketMail, was acquired by Yahoo! in 1997. Yahoo!...

 became Yahoo! Mail. Since Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

 released Gmail

Gmail

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well via POP3 or IMAP protocols. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though...

 on 1 April 2004, Yahoo! Mail has made several improvements to keep ahead of the competition, which also includes MSN Hotmail

Hotmail

Windows Live Hotmail, formerly known as MSN Hotmail and commonly referred to simply as Hotmail, is a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live group. It was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and launched in July 1996 as "HoTMaiL". It was one of the first...

 and AOL Mail. Yahoo! Mail is the only web-based email service that offers unlimited storage for all users. On 9 July 2004, Yahoo! acquired an e-mail provider named Oddpost and used its technology to create Yahoo! Mail Beta, which uses Ajax

Ajax (programming)

Ajax is a group of interrelated web development methods used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications...

 to mimic the look and feel

Look and feel

In software design, look and feel is a term used in respect of a graphical user interface and comprises aspects of its design, including elements such as colors, shapes, layout, and typefaces , as well as the behavior of dynamic elements such as buttons, boxes, and menus...

 of an e-mail client. On 19 June 2008, Yahoo Mail introduced its 2 new email domains: ymail.com and rocketmail.com ("@ymail.com" and "@rocketmail.com" at http://mail.yahoo.com).http://uk.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUKN183862920080619

• Yahoo! Maps
  Yahoo! Maps
  Yahoo! Maps is a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo!.-News:*On May 16, 2007, Yahoo! released a new map style designed by the cartography company...
  
  

Yahoo! Maps offers driving directions and traffic.

• Yahoo! Meme

Yahoo! Meme is a beta social service, similar to the popular social networking site Twitter.

• Yahoo! Messenger
  Yahoo! Messenger
  Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!...
  
  

Yahoo! Messenger is an instant messaging

Instant messaging

Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...

 service first released on 21 July 1999, which competes with AOL Instant Messenger

AOL Instant Messenger

AOL Instant Messenger is an instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. It was released by AOL in May 1997...

, Windows Live Messenger

Windows Live Messenger

Windows Live Messenger is an instant messaging client created by Microsoft that is currently designed to work with Windows XP , Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Xbox 360, Blackberry OS, iOS, Java ME, S60 on Symbian OS 9.x and Zune HD...

, Google Talk

Google Talk

Google Talk is a freeware voice over Internet protocol client application offered by Google Inc. The first beta version of the program was released on August 24, 2005...

, ICQ

ICQ

ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail.ru Group. The name ICQ is a homophone for the phrase "I seek you"...

 and QQ. It offers several unique features, such as IMvironments, custom status messages, and custom avatars. On 13 October 2005, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger (now Windows Live Messenger) would become interoperable.

• Yahoo! Mobile

Yahoo! Mobile is a mobile

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

 website used predominantly in the UK. It offers mobile downloads such as ringtones.

• Yahoo! Movies
  Yahoo! Movies
  Yahoo! Movies , provided by the Yahoo! network, is home to a large collection of information on movies, past and new releases, trailers and clips, box office information, and showtimes and movie theater information. Yahoo! Movies also includes red carpet photos, actor galleries, and production...
  
  

Yahoo! Movies offers showtimes, movie trailers, movie information, gossip

Gossip

Gossip is idle talk or rumour, especially about the personal or private affairs of others, It is one of the oldest and most common means of sharing facts and views, but also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and variations into the information transmitted...

, and others.

• Yahoo! Music
  Yahoo! Music
  Yahoo! Music, owned by Yahoo!, is the provider of a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming...
  
  

Yahoo! Music offers music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s and internet radio

Internet radio

Internet radio is an audio service transmitted via the Internet...

 (LAUNCHcast

LAUNCHcast

Yahoo! Music Radio is an Internet radio service offered by CBS Radio through Yahoo! Music. The service, formerly offered by LAUNCH Media, and originally developed by Todd Beaupré and Jeff Boulter, debuted on November 11, 1999, and was purchased by Yahoo! in October, 2001...

), a for-fee service known as Yahoo! Music Unlimited

Yahoo! Music Unlimited

Yahoo! Music Unlimited was an on-demand online music service launched on May 11, 2005 and provided by Yahoo! Music.The service was discontinued on September 30, 2008.-Service:...

 and the Yahoo! Music Engine- which has been sold to Rhapsody on Oct. 31st, 2008.

• Yahoo! News
  Yahoo! News
  Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news....
  
   news updates and top stories at Yahoo! News, including world, national, business, entertainment, sports, weather, technology, and weird news.
• Yahoo! OMG

OMG is a Yahoo! Entertainment online tabloid with most content provided by Access Hollywood

Access Hollywood

Access Hollywood is a weekday television entertainment news program covering events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created by former Entertainment Tonight executive producer Jim Van Messel, and is currently directed by Robert Silverstein. In previous years, Doug Dougherty and...

 and X17.

• Yahoo! Parental Controls

Yahoo! Parental Controls are special controls given by parents for their children, closely associated with Yahoo! Kids

Yahoo! Kids

Yahoo! Kids is a public web portal provided by Yahoo! to find age appropriate online content for children between the ages of 6 and 12. The website can be used for both educational and entertainment purposes. It was established in March 1996 by Yahoo! to give children a venue to find appropriate,...

.

• Yahoo! Personals
  Yahoo! Personals
  Yahoo! Personals was an online dating service provided by Yahoo!.-Features:Yahoo! Personals editions are designed in local languages. Contacting a member through Yahoo! Personals requires a paid subscription to Yahoo! Personals...
  
  

Yahoo! Personals is an online dating service

Online dating service

Online dating or Internet dating is a dating system which allows individuals, couples and groups to make contact and communicate with each other over the Internet, usually with the objective of developing a personal, romantic, or sexual relationship...

 with both free and paid versions. However, the free service is limited, as only paying users can contact users they meet through Yahoo! Personals and exchange contact information.

• Yahoo! Pipes
  Yahoo! Pipes
  Yahoo! Pipes is a web application from Yahoo! that provides a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services, creating Web-based apps from various sources, and publishing those apps...
  
  

Yahoo Pipes is a free RSS

RSS

-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...

 mashup visual editor and hosting service.

• Yahoo! Publisher Network
  Yahoo! Publisher Network
  The Yahoo! Publisher Network was an advertising network launched on August 2, 2005 by Yahoo! and effectively closed on April 30, 2010. The service only accepted US-Based publishers...
  
  

Yahoo! Publisher Network is an advertising program, which is currently in beta and only accepts US publishers.

• Yahoo! Real Estate
  Yahoo! Real Estate
  Yahoo! Real Estate was launched by Yahoo! in with the mission to provide home buyers, sellers and renters with the most relevant and comprehensive set of information and tools. With access to over three million homes for sale and apartments for rent, Yahoo! Real estate provides one of the most...
  
  

Yahoo! Real Estate offers real estate

Real estate

In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...

-related information and allows users to find rentals, mew houses, real estate agents, mortgages and more.

• Yahoo! Search
  Yahoo! Search
  Yahoo! Search is a web search engine, owned by Yahoo! Inc. and was , the 2nd largest search engine on the web by query volume, at 6.42%, after its competitor Google at 85.35% and before Baidu at 3.67%, according to Net Applications....
  
  

Yahoo! Search is a search engine

Search engine

A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...

 which competes with MSN Search (now Bing

Bing

Bing is a web search engine from Microsoft.Bing may also refer to:* An onomatopœia of a bell sound* Bing cherry, a variety of cherry* Bing , Chinese flatbread* Bing , a German company that manufactured toys and kitchen utensils...

) and market leader Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

. Yahoo! relied on Google results from 26 June 2000 to 18 February 2004, but returned to using its own technology after acquiring Inktomi

Inktomi

Inktomi Corporation was a California 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...

 and Overture

Overture

Overture in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera...

 (which owned AlltheWeb

AlltheWeb

AlltheWeb was an Internet search engine that made its debut in mid-1999. It grew out of FTP Search, Tor Egge's doctorate thesis at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, which he started in 1994, which in turn resulted in the formation of Fast Search and Transfer, established on July...

 and AltaVista

AltaVista

AltaVista is a web search engine owned by Yahoo!. AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity declined with the rise of Google...

). Yahoo! Search uses a crawler named Yahoo! Slurp

Yahoo! Slurp

Yahoo! Slurp is a web crawler from Yahoo! that obtains content for the Yahoo! Search engine. Slurp is based on search technology Yahoo! acquired when it purchased Inktomi.Slurp identifies itself by using the following User agent strings:...

.

• Yahoo! Search Marketing
  Yahoo! Search Marketing
  Yahoo! Search Marketing is a keyword-based "Pay per click" or "Sponsored search" Internet advertising service provided by Yahoo!.Yahoo began offering this service after acquiring Overture Services, Inc....
  
  

Yahoo! Search Marketing provides pay per click

Pay per click

Pay per click is an Internet advertising model used to direct traffic to websites, where advertisers pay the publisher when the ad is clicked. With search engines, advertisers typically bid on keyword phrases relevant to their target market...

 inclusion of links in search engine result lists, and also delivers targeted ads. The service was previously branded as Overture Services after Yahoo! acquired Overture in 2003.

• Yahoo! Shopping
  Yahoo! Shopping
  Yahoo! Shopping is Yahoo's price comparison service.Yahoo uses the Kelkoo price comparison service it acquired in April 2004 to power Yahoo! Shopping in 6 countries.-External links:**...
  
  

Yahoo! Shopping is a price comparison service

Price comparison service

On the internet, a price comparison service allows individuals to see different lists of prices for specific products. Most price comparison services do not sell products themselves, but source prices from retailers from whom users can buy...

, that allows users to search for products and compare prices of various online stores.

• Yahoo! Small Business

Yahoo! Small Business offers web hosting, domain names and e-commerce services for small business

Small business

A small business is a business that is privately owned and operated, with a small number of employees and relatively low volume of sales. Small businesses are normally privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships...

es.

• Yahoo! Smush.it

Yahoo! Smush.it optimizes digital images by removing unnecessary bytes and reducing their file size

File size

File size measures the size of a computer file. Typically it is measured in bytes with a prefix. The actual amount of disk space consumed by the file depends on the file system....

.

• Yahoo! Sports
  Yahoo! Sports
  Yahoo! Sports was launched on December 8, 1997. It receives a majority of its information from STATS, Inc., employs various writers, and has team pages for teams in almost every North American sport...
  
  

Yahoo! Sports offers sports news, including scores, statistics, and fixtures. It includes a "fantasy team" game.

• Yahoo! Thế giới sao

Yahoo! Thế giới sao offers hottest news from celebrities around the world. It is totally different from Yahoo! News

Yahoo! News

Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news....

 nor Yahoo! Tin tức (a vietnamese version of Yahoo! News)

• Yahoo! Travel

Yahoo! Travel offers travel guides, booking and reservation services.

• Yahoo! TV

Yahoo! TV offers scheduled recordings on Tivo

TiVo

TiVo is a digital video recorder developed and marketed by TiVo, Inc. and introduced in 1999. TiVo provides an on-screen guide of scheduled broadcast programming television programs, whose features include "Season Pass" schedules which record every new episode of a series, and "WishList"...

 box remotely.

• Yahoo! Video
  Yahoo! Video
  Yahoo! Video is a video sharing website on which users could upload and share videos. The service is owned and created by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Video began as an internet-wide video search engine and added the ability to upload and share video clips in June 2006...
  
  

Yahoo! Video is a video sharing

Video sharing

Video hosting services refers to websites or software where users can distribute their video clips. Other sites such as file hosting services image hosting services and social network services might support video sharing as an enhancement to their primary mission, but in general, they are not...

 site.

• Yahoo! Voice
  Yahoo! Voice
  Yahoo! Voice is a Voice over IP PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service , provided by Yahoo! via its Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging application. Yahoo! Voice uses the Session Initiation Protocol , GIPS codec and the Dialpad engine for voice transport...
  
  

Yahoo! Voice was formerly known as Dialpad. It is a Voice over IP PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service.

• Yahoo! Web Analytics

IndexTools was acquired by Yahoo! and re-branded as 'Yahoo! Web Analytics

Web analytics

Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage....

'.

• Yahoo! Widgets

Yahoo! Widgets is a cross-platform desktop

Desktop computer

A desktop computer is a personal computer in a form intended for regular use at a single location, as opposed to a mobile laptop or portable computer. Early desktop computers are designed to lay flat on the desk, while modern towers stand upright...

 widget runtime environment. The software was previously distributed as a commercial product called 'Konfabulator' for Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

 and Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 until it was acquired by Yahoo! and rebranded 'Yahoo! Widgets' and made available for free.

• Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam

Social networking services as the replacement for Yahoo! 360°

Yahoo! 360°

Yahoo! 360° was a social networking and personal communication portal operated by Yahoo! made available in 2005. It enabled users to create personal web sites, share photos from Yahoo! Photos, maintain blogs and lists, create and share a public profile and see which friends are currently online...

. Popular in Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

.

Closed/defunct services

• Bix
  Bix Contests
  Bix was a web service best known for its online competitions. The site provided self-service tools for the creation of contests. After a user created the contest, other members could enter and vote on the outcome of those contests...
  
  

Bix is a contest website acquired by Yahoo!. Site is not reachable.

• blo.gs
  Blo.gs
  blo.gs is a service based on RSS feed aggregation, primarily from blogs, which produces a simple list of the user's bookmarked sites, ordered according to recentness of update. It was acquired by Yahoo! in June 2005...
  
   – a directory of recently updated weblogs,

blo.gs is a directory of recently updated weblogs

Blog

A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

, purchased by Yahoo! in June 2005. On April 2009 the service has been transferred from Yahoo to Automattic, the business that runs WordPress and WordPress.com.

• del.icio.us
  Del.icio.us
  Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, and by the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs...
  
  

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking

Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them....

 website which allows users to store and share bookmarks online. Yahoo! bought it on 9 December 2005. The service was sold to AVOS

Avos

Avos may refer to:* Avos is a shortening of Pirkei Avos, a tractate of the Jewish Talmud* Avos, the name of a ship in an expedition by Nikolai Rezanov which became a basis for the 1978 Russian rock opera Juno and Avos** Juno and Avos...

 in, owned by YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

 founders Chad Hurley

Chad Hurley

Chad Meredith Hurley is an American co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 People Who Matter Now" list...

 and Steve Chen

Steve Chen

Steve Chen is a computer engineer and pioneer. Chen is the founder and CEO of , a developer of supercomputing blade systems, based in Shenzhen, China....

, on April 27 2011.

• Kelkoo
  Kelkoo
  The website Kelkoo is a European price comparison service founded in France in 1999, allowing customers to find information on products they want to purchase, including price and seller information. It was bought by Yahoo! in 2004...
  
  

Kelkoo is a shopping search engine which operates in 10 European countries. It was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004. It is no longer part of Yahoo! since 2008, but a partner.

• Jumpcut.com
  Jumpcut.com
  Jumpcut.com was a website that provided free video editing and hosting services. The website was launched as a private alpha in January 2006 and as a public beta on 4 April 2006. In October 2006 Jumpcut was purchased by Yahoo...
  
  

Jumpcut is a service where the uploaded photos and videos can be edited online. Yahoo! has closed the service.

• Yahoo! 360°
  Yahoo! 360°
  Yahoo! 360° was a social networking and personal communication portal operated by Yahoo! made available in 2005. It enabled users to create personal web sites, share photos from Yahoo! Photos, maintain blogs and lists, create and share a public profile and see which friends are currently online...
  
  

Yahoo! 360° was a social networking site and blog

Blog

A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

 host. Since its launch on 29 March 2005, it has gained over 2 million members. It was invite-only until 24 June 2005, and then became available to all users above 13. Yahoo! 360 was closed on July 13, 2009.

• Yahoo! Auctions
  Yahoo! Auctions
  Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay.There are currently only three localizations of the service active in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan; Yahoo! has already discontinued the service in United States, Canada, Singapore, United Kingdom...
  
  

Yahoo! Auctions was an online auction site created to compete against auction sites such as eBay

EBay

eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...

. Yahoo! Auctions never gained the popularity of market leader eBay in the U.S. and Canada; the main Yahoo! Auctions service shut down on June 16, 2007. Yahoo! Auctions still exist in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. In Japan, Yahoo! has a 33% stake in Yahoo! Japan and does not own the service outright.

• Yahoo! Assistant
  Yahoo! Assistant
  Yahoo! Assistant, formerly named 3721 Internet Assistant, is a Browser Helper Object for Internet Explorer developed by Beijing 3721 Technology Co...
  
  

Yahoo! Assistant is a browser helper object

Browser Helper Object

A Browser Helper Object is a DLL module designed as a plugin for Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser to provide added functionality. BHOs were introduced in October 1997 with the release of version 4 of Internet Explorer. Most BHOs are loaded once by each new instance of Internet Explorer...

 for Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer

Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...

. It was developed by Beijing 3721 Technology and originally called 3721 Internet Assistant, but was renamed Yahoo! Assistant after Yahoo! acquired Beijing 3721 Technology. Yahoo! Assistant blocks pop-up

Pop-Up

Pop Up is the debut album by French electropop trio Yelle. It was released in France on 3 September 2007 by the EMI-owned label Source Etc. The album peaked at number sixty-one on the French Albums Chart, and went on to sell 20,000 copies.-Promotion:...

s and removes Internet history information. However, it is regarded as spyware

Spyware

Spyware is a type of malware that can be installed on computers, and which collects small pieces of information about users without their knowledge. The presence of spyware is typically hidden from the user, and can be difficult to detect. Typically, spyware is secretly installed on the user's...

 or malware

Malware

Malware, short for malicious software, consists of programming that is designed to disrupt or deny operation, gather information that leads to loss of privacy or exploitation, or gain unauthorized access to system resources, or that otherwise exhibits abusive behavior...

 by Microsoft AntiSpyware, Panda AntiVirus and similar security programs. The application is no longer available.

• Yahoo Buzz closed April 21, 2011.

• Yahoo! Gallery

Yahoo! Gallery is a directory of applications

Application software

Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with...

 built by third-party developers using Yahoo! technologies. It was shut down on July 14, 2009.

• Yahoo! Geocities
  GeoCities
  Yahoo! GeoCities is a web hosting service, currently available only in Japan.GeoCities was originally founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet . In its original form, site users selected a "city" in which to place their web pages...
  
  

Yahoo! GeoCities is a web hosting service

Web hosting service

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet...

 which offers 15 MB of web space. It was formed in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet and allowed users to select a "city" to place their site in, based on the site's content. It was purchased by Yahoo! in 1999. Yahoo! implemented changes, such as changing the Terms of Service

Terms of Service

Terms of service are rules which one must agree to abide by in order to use a service. Unless in violation of consumer protection laws, such terms are usually legally binding...

, introducing advertisements on GeoCities pages and introducing a premium hosting service. Yahoo! GeoCities is being abandoned for a strictly premium hosting service with current Yahoo! Geocities pages becoming unavailable on October 26, 2009.

• Yahoo! Go
  Yahoo! Go
  Yahoo! Go was a Java-based phone application provided by Yahoo! for users to access the company's products and services via their mobile phones or PDAs...
  
   a once popular Java based phone application with access to most of Yahoo! services was closed down on January 12, 2010.

• Yahoo! Greetings

Yahoo! Greetings was an e-card

E-card

An e-card is similar to a postcard or greeting card, with the primary difference being that it is created using digital media instead of paper or other traditional materials. E-cards are made available by publishers usually on various Internet sites, where they can be sent to a recipient, usually...

 service. One of the features was that you could upload your own photo to use as the card image. Now, on the U.S. and Canadian Yahoos, the Greetings link simply redirects to American Greetings

American Greetings

American Greetings Corporation, Inc. is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Brooklyn, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products , and electronic expressive content...

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• Yahoo! HotJobs

Yahoo! HotJobs provided tools and advice to job seekers. Now it is owned by Monster.

• Yahoo! Kickstart
  Yahoo! Kickstart
  Yahoo! Kickstart is a professional network created by Yahoo! for college students, recent graduates, employers and alumni. The aim of the service is to help students find internships or jobs, or solicit career development advice and mentorship....
  
  

Yahoo! Kickstart was a new professional network with a distinct purpose: To build a community of college students, recent grads, employers, professionals, and alumni, where people can connect and discover internships or jobs, or solicit career development advice and mentorship.

• Yahoo! Mash
  Yahoo! Mash
  Yahoo! Mash was a social network service launched by Yahoo! during the early part of September 2007, to compete with other social networking sites by offering "mashups" of existing web services on a single-user interface...
  
  

Yahoo! Mash was a social network that allowed other users to edit any page.

• Yahoo! Photos

Yahoo! Photos was a photo sharing service similar to Flickr

Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...

, which Yahoo! acquired. Users had unlimited storage, but only JPG photographs were allowed. Users can categorize and upload their photographs to albums they have created. Users can set various access levels for albums, ranging from public to private. Yahoo! Photos closed in 2007. Photos can be moved with other photo hosts, including Flickr.

• Yahoo! Music Unlimited and Yahoo! Music Jukebox

Premium services offered by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Music Jukebox was the final product of Yahoo! Music Engine which was offered to users with embedded support of Yahoo! Music Unlimited, which Yahoo! acquired from MusicMatch. It was later sold to Rhapsody on 31, Oct. 2008, a leading company owned by Real Networks providing fee based music subscription service.

• Yahoo! Briefcase
  Yahoo! Briefcase
  Yahoo! Briefcase was an online storage service offer by Yahoo!, providing 30MB of online storage of files, including photo files, etc. up to 5MB...
  
  

Yahoo! Briefcase was a free file hosting service

File hosting service

A file hosting service, online file storage provider, or cyberlocker is an Internet hosting service specifically designed to host user files. Typically they allow HTTP and FTP access. Related services are content-displaying hosting services A file hosting service, online file storage provider, or...

. It closed on March 30, 2009. Premium users have been fully refunded.

• Yahoo! Live
  Yahoo! Live
  Yahoo! Live or Y! Live was a Yahoo! service that allowed users to broadcast videos in real time. The service was closed on December 3, 2008.- History :...
  
  

Allowed users to broadcast videos in real time. It was closed on December 3, 2008.

• Yahoo! Player

Yahoo! Player is a discontinued computer based media player that was designed by Yahoo. The underlying technology was based on Microsoft's Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices...

 and was similar to other competing media players such as MusicMatch or WinAmp

Winamp

Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp...

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• Yahoo! Podcasts
  Yahoo! Podcasts
  Yahoo! Podcasts was a podcasting directory service that let users download, stream online, subscribe and review podcasts. It also allowed users to search for podcasts or browse from a podcast directory....
  
  

Yahoo! Podcasts was a beta service that allows users to search for and view podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

s. The podcast service was discontinued in November 2007 due to declining popularity and implemented into the Yahoo audio search.

• Yahoo! Tech
  Yahoo! Tech
  Yahoo! Tech was a web site that provided product information and setup advice to help its users, as expressed in its slogan "Tech Made Easy." Yahoo! launched the web site in May 2006...
  
  

Yahoo! Tech offered reviews and advice for buying and using electronics

Electronics

Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

, but was closed down on March 11, 2010, with some residual features moved to a technology themed section of Yahoo! News.

• Rocketmail
  Rocketmail
  RocketMail was one of the first major, free webmail services. The service was originally a product of Four11 Corporation. For a brief time, RocketMail battled with Hotmail for the number-one spot among free webmail services. Four11, including RocketMail, was acquired by Yahoo! in 1997. Yahoo!...
  
  

Rocketmail was a service that competed with Yahoo's own Yahoo! Mail product in the 1990s. Yahoo acquired the service and later closed it. Strangely, in 2008 Yahoo! Mail allowed users to create e-mail accounts with "rocketmail.com" reliving in some way the service.