Yahoo! Search
Yahoo Inc. | |
URL | search |
---|---|
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | March 2, 1995 |
Current status | Active |
Written in | PHP[1] |
Yahoo! Search is a search engine owned and operated by Yahoo!, using Microsoft Bing to power results.
Originally, "Yahoo! Search" referred to a Yahoo!-provided interface that sent
On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would henceforth power Yahoo! Search, putting an end to Yahoo!'s in-house crawler.[2] For four years between 2015 until the end of 2018, it was powered by Google,[3] before returning to Microsoft Bing again.
As of July 2018, Microsoft Sites handled 24.2 percent of all desktop search queries in the United States. During the same period of time,
Search technology acquisition
The roots of Search date back to
In 2003, they purchased
Starting on April 7, 2003, Yahoo! Search became its own web crawler-based search engine.[8] They combined the capabilities of search engine companies they had acquired and their prior research into a reinvented crawler called Yahoo!. The new search engine results were included in all of Yahoo's websites that had a web search function. Yahoo! also started to sell the search engine results to other companies, to show on their own websites. Their relationship with Google was terminated at that time, with the former partners becoming each other's main competitors.
In October 2007, Yahoo! Search was updated with a more modern appearance in line with the redesigned Yahoo! home page. In addition, Search Assist was added; which provides real-time query suggestions and related concepts as they are typed.
In July 2008, Yahoo! Search announced the introduction of a new service called Yahoo! Search BOSS ("Build your Own Search Service"). This service opens the doors for developers to use Yahoo!'s system for indexing information and images and create their own custom search engine.[9]
In January 2010, Microsoft announced a deal in which it would take over the functional operation of Yahoo! Search, and set up a joint venture to sell advertising on both Yahoo! Search and
On March 12, 2014, Yahoo! announced a partnership with Yelp to integrate its reviews and user-contributed photos into Yahoo! Search (as Bing had previously done).[10]
In November 2014, Mozilla signed a five-year partnership with Yahoo, making Yahoo Search the default search engine for Firefox browsers in the US.[11]
In April 2015, the Microsoft partnership was modified, now only requiring Bing results on the "majority" of desktop traffic, opening the ability for Yahoo to enter into non-exclusive deals for search services on mobile platforms and the remainder of desktop traffic. The amendment also gives either company the ability to terminate the contract with four months' notice. In October 2015, Yahoo subsequently reached an agreement with Google to provide services to Yahoo Search through the end of 2018, including advertising, search, and image search services.[12][13][3] As of October 2019, Yahoo! Search is once again powered by Bing.
In September 2021, investment funds managed by the private equity firm Apollo Global Management acquired 90% of Yahoo.[14][15]
International presence
Yahoo! Search also provided their search interface in at least 38 international markets and a variety of available languages.[16] Yahoo! has a presence in Europe, Asia and across the Emerging Markets.
Languages
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Thai
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
Yahoo Image Search Results Languages
Yahoo Image Search Results in 24 languages
- English
- Spanish
- Turkish
- Tagalog
- Arabic
- Swedish
- Vietnamese
- Malay
- Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
- Other languages
Search results
Yahoo Search indexed and cached the common HTML page formats, as well as several of the more popular file-types, such as
Yahoo! Search was criticized in 2020 for favoring websites owned by Yahoo!'s then-parent company,
Selection-based search
On June 20, 2007, Yahoo introduced a
SearchScan
On May 11, 2008, Yahoo introduced SearchScan. If enabled this add-on/feature enhanced Yahoo Search by automatically alerting users of
Search verticals
Yahoo Search provided the ability to search across numerous vertical properties outside just the Web at large. These included Images, Videos, Local, Shopping, Yahoo! Answers, Audio, Directory, Jobs, News, Mobile, Travel and various other services as listed on their About Yahoo Search page.
OneSearch
OneSearch
Yahoo introduced its Internet search system, called OneSearch,[25] for mobile phones on March 20, 2007. The results include news headlines, images from Flickr, business listings, local weather and links to other sites. Instead of showing only, for example, popular movies or some critical reviews, OneSearch lists local theaters that at the moment are playing the movie, along with user ratings and news headlines regarding the movie. A zip code or city name is required for OneSearch to start delivering local search results.[26]
The results of a Web search are listed on a single page and are prioritized into categories.[27]
As of 2012, Yahoo used
OneSearch
On January 14, 2020, Verizon announced the launch of its privacy-focused search engine OneSearch.[29][30][31]
OneSearch was criticized for favoring websites owned by Yahoo!'s then-parent company,
"EFF Privacy Badger (a browser extension that detects cookies) discovered a tracker connected to Yahoo’s image search engine...Verizon owns Yahoo... OneSearch actually pulls all of its search results from
Verizon was fined $1.3 million for using super cookie trackers.[34]
www.onesearch.com is excluded from the Wayback Machine.[35][36]
- onesearch.wesleyan.edu[37]
- onesearch.library.utoronto.ca
- onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au
- onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au
- onesearch.library.northeastern.edu
- onesearch.lancaster-university.uk
- onesearch.id
- onesearch.cuny.edu
- onesearch.library.nd.edu
- onesearch.fitnyc.edu
- onesearch.library.wwu.edu
See also
- Comparison of web search engines
- List of search engines
- Yahoo! Directory
- List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services
- Yahoo! Search BOSS
- Yahoo! SearchMonkey
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- ^ "Yahoo Partners With Yelp To Bring Local Data To Its Search Tools". TechCrunch. March 12, 2014. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
- ^ "New Search Strategy for Firefox: Promoting Choice & Innovation". The Mozilla Blog.
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- ^ Mihalcik, Carrie (September 1, 2021). "Yahoo has a new owner, again". CNET.
- ^ "Apollo Funds Complete Acquisition of Yahoo" (Press release). Apollo Global Management. September 1, 2021.
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- ^ Search Basics tutorial Archived October 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ a b "Yahoo!, AOL, OneSearch results biased in favor of parent company Verizon Media's websites". Ctrl blog. March 6, 2020.
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- ^ "Yahoo SearchScan information page". Tools.search.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
- ^ "Yahoo! oneSearch". The Webby Awards. 2008. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
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- ^ "Verizon Media Launches Privacy-Focused Search Engine, OneSearch". Verizon Media. January 14, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
- ^ Lyons, Kim (January 14, 2020). "Yahoo parent Verizon promises it won't track you with OneSearch, its new privacy-focused search engine". The Verge. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
- ^ "OneSearch vs. Yahoo Search Comparison". sourceforge.net. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
- ^ Gelinas, James (January 18, 2020). "Does Verizon OneSearch actually protect your privacy?". Komando.com. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
- ^ "Is Yahoo's New 'OneSearch' Engine Good for Privacy?". Lifehacker. January 16, 2020. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
- ^ Lyons, Kim (January 14, 2020). "Verizon's new OneSearch search engine promises privacy, unlike nearly every other Verizon product". The Verge. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.onesearch.com
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.onesearch.com
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