Hey all! We are back with yet another A to Z after Google and Facebook. Yes. This time we explored about the No.2 Search Engine Yahoo!. And here we presenting about our journey with Yahoo!.

Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. According to Web traffic analysis companies (including Compete.com, comScore, Alexa Internet, Netcraft, and Nielsen ratings), the domain yahoo.com attracted at least 1.575 billion visitors annually by 2008. The global network of Yahoo! websites receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average.

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OK! Lets start with Yahoo! A to Z now.

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Address:

Yahoo! Contacts is more than an online contact manager. Yes, it helps you organize contact information; all address books do that. With Yahoo! Contacts, you also have a number of communication options including sending an email, text message, and instant message while viewing a person’s contact details. You can even group contacts into categories and email the entire group. You can keep up to date with the people that matter most to you by receiving Updates each time they change their contact information.
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Ads:

Yahoo! Search marketing provides services such as Sponsored Search, Local Advertising, and Product/Travel/Directory Submit that let different businesses advertise their products and services on the Yahoo! network. Yahoo! Publisher Network is an advertising tool for online publishers to place advertisements relevant to their content to monetize their websites.

Yahoo! launched its new Internet advertisement sales system on February 5, 2007 called Panama. It allows advertisers to bid for search terms based on their popularity to display their ads on search results pages.
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Alerts:

Bring your content to your readers with Yahoo! Alerts.
Make it easy for your readers to find out when new content is added to your RSS-enabled web site by adding a Yahoo! Alerts action button. When a visitor to your site clicks this button on your page, he or she can set up an alert to receive updates every time your page changes.

This button is easy to set up. Readers can receive alerts whenever your feed is updated – via email, Yahoo! Messenger or mobile device.

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Alibaba:

Alibaba.com is the world’s largest online trade platform, connecting millions of buyers and suppliers worldwide every day!

Alibaba Group acquired China Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com.cn) in October 2005 as part of its strategic partnership with Yahoo! Inc. China Yahoo! is one of the leading Chinese-language portals offering search, email and an enhanced focus on entertainment content.

China Yahoo! is wholly owned by Alibaba Group.

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Analytics:

Yahoo! Web Analytics is a highly customizable, enterprise-level website analytics system designed to help website businesses increase sales and visitor satisfaction, reduce marketing costs and gain new insight on online customers. By storing data in raw, non-aggregated form, Yahoo! Web Analytics is more than simply a reporting tool. It is a powerful, and highly flexible, data analysis tool. Both near real-time and historical data can be segmented instantly and visualized with advanced graphs to help marketers and site designers answer specific business questions and find new insights to improve their business.

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Answers:

Yahoo! Answers (Formerly known as Yahoo! Q & A) is a community-driven question-and-answer (Q& A) site launched by Yahoo! on July 5, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users. The site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage participation and is based on Naver Knowledge in. Yahoo! Answers is available in 12 languages, but several Asian sites operate a different platform which allows for non-Latin characters.

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Autos:

Autos is a resource for automotive research, commerce, community, and ownership information. Here you can:

• Browse used car listings to find the car that’s right for you.
• Browse new cars by category, price, or make, on the New Car page.
• Get free price quotes on a new car from local dealers with Yahoo!
• Compare cars side by side with Yahoo! Compare tool.
• If you find a car you like, save it in your My Autos Center so you can quickly refer to it in the future. My Autos Center also allows you to save cars you built and comparisons you find useful.
• Get financing and insurance information.
• Get maintenance information.

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Avatars:

• An avatar is an image you customize.
• Friends can see your avatar in Messenger.
• Create one now in just a few steps.

A Yahoo! Avatar is a character that you can personalize and use when interacting with friends online. By changing hairstyles, clothes, accessories, and backgrounds, you can create your own unique persona.

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Babel Fish:

The Babel Fish Translation tool which uses machine translation technology to translate sentences in one language into another language. Babel Fish can translate either text or full web pages from the internet.
Bring translation capability to your site
With Yahoo! Babel Fish, your users can translate passages of text or entire Web pages among 12 languages, or they can quickly translate your page into their language of choice.

Adding Babel Fish Translation to your site is free and easy. Simply choose the tool (or tools) you want for your site, click the “I want this one!” button, then copy and paste the single line of code into your page. Take your pick from two powerful tools.

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Biz:

Yahoo! Biz is a sub-domain of finance.yahoo.com! This site gives you the latest news about in business world! Mainly concentrated towards the U.S market.

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Blogs:

Like all website owner even Yahoo! is having its own Blogs for each product for updating its users about the new stuff added to it. Now have a look at few Yahoo! Blogs and what update they have for you.

• Yahoo! Group Blog
• Yahoo! Messenger Blog
• Yahoo! Mail Blog
• Yahoo! Search Blog
• My Yahoo! Blog

Bookmarks:

Yahoo! Bookmarks is an online service that lets you save links to your favorite websites on Yahoo! and access them from any computer anywhere in the world.

With Yahoo! Bookmarks you can save a bookmark at home and have it at your fingertips on any other computer, in any location. Even when you buy a new computer, your bookmarks will still be easily accessible in Yahoo! Bookmarks.

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Buzz:

Yahoo! Buzz is a new way to get your news. Yahoo! pull in the hottest stories from a broad assortment of web publishers throughout the day, then give you the chance to be an editor by voting (“buzzing”) stories up or down, submitting your own to Buzz, or have a conversation around them by commenting on buzz articles.

For each Yahoo! Buzz story there’s a ranking. The stories ranking is based on votes received, comments on the story, related search terms, and the times it’s been shared to others by email.

The highest ranked Buzz story might be featured on the Yahoo! homepage, the Web’s most popular starting point.

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Calendar:

Share your calendar more easily, send event invites, color-code layers and zoom-in on days. Recently Yahoo! Has released new beta version. It has many cool features like,

• Calendar Events: Setting up, repeating, and deleting events.
• Calendar sharing: Share your calendar, and see other people’s calendars.
• Remainder: Choose how and when you’d like Reminders.
• Sync with other calendars: Sync with iCalendar, Mozilla Lightning/Sunbird, Google, and others.
• Calendar Invites: Notify others of your events.
• Import n Export: Getting events into and out of Yahoo! Calendar.

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Careers:

Yahoo! Careers provides a one-stop solution for everyone who are looking out for a bright Career. Yahoo! is providing many tips for the beginners and as well as exprienced persons.

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Connected TV:

Yahoo! TV Widgets deliver a Cinematic Internet™ experience directly to TVs from Samsung, LG, VIZIO and Sony. Buy a TV today and get access to your favorite movie, TV show and Web services on demand. Get your personal selection of movies and TV shows streamed directly to your TV from Amazon Video on Demand® and Blockbuster® including HD! Check models available to the right. View your personalized Internet content while watching TV.

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Cricket:

Yahoo! Cricket is a cricket-related website. While in name part of the US-based Yahoo!’s Yahoo! Sports, it is hosted and administrated by Yahoo! India.

In February 2009, Yahoo! India signed a three-year partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC), to become the exclusive online partner for all ICC events. This includes the ICC World Twenty20, ICC Champions Trophy and ICC Cricket World Cup. According to comScore, April 2009 data, Yahoo! Cricket was attracting 2.4 million unique users per month, which ranked it as the top cricket site in India.

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Deals:

Yahoo! Deals scours the web to find coupons, sales & bargains to save you money! Find cheap daily deals, codes for online coupons, free grocery coupons, and printable local coupons for all of your favorite stores & products!

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Delicious:

The Web is a big place, full of new and interesting things to discover. The problem is finding the good stuff and keeping track of it all. This is where Delicious can help.

Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you.

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Detector:

Ydetector.com is a website for Yahoo! Messenger status checking. With ydetector.com you can now bypass Yahoo! Messenger’s Invisible Settings with ease. It’s quick and intuitive interface, ydetector.com offers you the ability to see if your friend is truly online or if they are invisible.

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Developer:

Yahoo! Developer Network is a site which provides the overview of how developers are working behind the Yahoo! success. You can find a link to all the products and how they are developed and whats new in the net.

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Directory:

The Yahoo! Directory and Yahoo! Search work together to bring you the information and resources you are looking for.

• Yahoo! Search returns a list of webpages containing the words you entered. These results are a combination of relevant webpages and websites provided by Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Directory.
• The Yahoo! Directory is a human-created and maintained collection of websites organized into categories and subcategories. Yahoo! editors review these sites for potential inclusion in the Directory, and to evaluate the best place to list them.

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Domains:

What’s in a domain name? A lot more than you might think. Your domain name can be your first impression, your face to the outside world, and your new marketing plan. Learn more about what domain names are, why you should take the time to choose a good one for yourself, and how to go about it. Continue Reading…

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Downloads:

Yahoo! providing n-number of tools for download. And good thing is all those are for free. If we list out few tools,

• Toolbar for Internet Explorer
• Toolbar for Firefox
• Internet Explorer 8 Optimized for Yahoo!
• Messenger
• Yahoo! Widgets
• Driver Downloads

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Education:

Similar to Yahoo! Career, Yahoo! Education is brought to you by Yahoo HotJobs! Here Yahoo! is providing more info about the education like MBA, Future plans and many more.

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Entertainment:

Yahoo! Entertainment site provides information about the Entertainment news all over the world. Yahoo! Entertainment includes, movies, music, TV and many more.

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Family:

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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 information including stock quotes, stock exchange rates, corporate press releases and financial reports, and popular message boards for discussing a company’s prospects and stock valuation. It also offers some hosted tools for personal finance management. Yahoo! Finance Worldwide offers similar portals localized to assorted large countries in South America, Europe, and Asia.

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Flickr:

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community created by Ludicorp and later acquired by Yahoo!. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. As of October 2009, it claims to host more than 4 billion images.

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For Good:

Yahoo! for Good’s specific focus is the environment. Yahoo! has created everyday tools to empower people like us to live greener, launching green campaigns, and taking steps to reduce our carbon footprint.

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