Yahoo! was still one of the most-visited sites on Earth in 2010, thanks to Yahoo Mail, the news-heavy portal homepage, Yahoo Answers, Flickr and Yahoo Finance. Under CEO Carol Bartz, it handed its search technology to Microsoft's Bing and leaked plans to shut Delicious.
- Domain in 2010
- yahoo.com
- Launched
- March 1995
- Founders
- Jerry Yang, David Filo
- Owner in 2010
- Yahoo! Inc. (public)
- Status today
- Still exists, transformed
What people used it for
- Yahoo Mail
- Portal homepage with news, weather and sports
- Yahoo Answers and Yahoo Groups
- Yahoo Finance and Fantasy Sports
Interface characteristics
- Purple logo and dense module-based homepage
- Left-hand list of Yahoo services
- Today module with rotating stories
Notable features
- Search results powered by Bing (August 2010)
- Yahoo Answers at its peak
- Yahoo Mail with hundreds of millions of accounts
What happened later
Verizon bought Yahoo's web business in 2017; Yahoo Answers closed in 2021.
Archived on the Wayback Machine
Archived pages open on web.archive.org (Internet Archive). They are historical captures, not part of this exhibit.
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