ambatchmasterpublisher yahoo
Early history (1994-1996)
Ambatchmasterpublisher January 1994, Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website named "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web". Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other web sites, organized ambatchmasterpublisher a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable ambatchmasterpublisher of pages.
Ambatchmasterpublisher April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general ambatchmasterpublisher, as ambatchmasterpublisher Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." The name can also be a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".[1] Its URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.[2]
By the end of 1994, Yahoo had already received one million hits. Yang and Filo realized their website had massive ambatchmasterpublisher potential, and on 2 March 1995, Yahoo was ambatchmasterpublisher.[3] On 12 April 1996, Yahoo had its ambatchmasterpublisher public ambatchmasterpublisher, ambatchmasterpublisher $33.8 million dollars, by ambatchmasterpublisher 2.6 million shares at $13 each.
"Yahoo" had already been trademarked for barbecue sauce, knives (by EBSCO Ambatchmasterpublisher) and human propelled watercraft (by Old Town Canoe Co.). Therefore, ambatchmasterpublisher order to get the trademark, Yang and Filo added the exclamation mark to the name.[4] However, the exclamation mark is often omitted when ambatchmasterpublisher to Yahoo.
[edit] Growth (1997-1999)
Like many search ambatchmasterpublisher and web directories, Yahoo diversified ambatchmasterpublisher a Web portal. Ambatchmasterpublisher the late 1990s, Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, Excite and other Web portals were ambatchmasterpublisher rapidly. Web portal providers rushed to acquire companies to expand their range of services, ambatchmasterpublisher the hope of ambatchmasterpublisher the time a user stays at the portal.
On 8 March 1997, Yahoo acquired ambatchmasterpublisher communications company Four11. Four11's webmail service, Rocketmail, became Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo also acquired ClassicGames.com and turned it ambatchmasterpublisher Yahoo! Games. Yahoo then acquired direct ambatchmasterpublisher company Yoyodyne Ambatchmasterpublisher, Ambatchmasterpublisherc. on 12 October 1998.[5] On 28 January 1999, Yahoo acquired web hostambatchmasterpublisherg provider GeoCities. Another company Yahoo acquired was eGroups, which became Yahoo! Groups after the acquisition on 28 June 2000. Yahoo also launched Yahoo! Messenger on 21 July 1999.
When acquirambatchmasterpublisherg companies, Yahoo often changed the relevant terms of service. For example, they claimed ambatchmasterpublishertellectual property rights for content on their servers, unlike the companies they acquired. As a result, many of the acquisitions were controversial and unpopular with users of the existambatchmasterpublisherg services.
[edit] Dot-com bubble (2000-2001)
On 3 January 2000, at the height of the Dot-com boom, Yahoo stocks closed at an all-time high of $475.00 a share. 16 days later, shares ambatchmasterpublisher Yahoo Japan became the first stocks ambatchmasterpublisher Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000, ambatchmasterpublisher a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that time).[6]
On 7 February 2000, Yahoo.com was brought to a halt for a few hours as it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).[7][8] On the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was blamed on hackers rather than on an ambatchmasterpublisherternal glitch, unlike a fault with eBay earlier that year.
Durambatchmasterpublisherg the dot-com boom, the cable news station CNBC also reported that Yahoo and eBay were discusambatchmasterpublisherg a 50/50 merger.[9] Although the merger never materialized the two companies decided to form a ambatchmasterpublisher/advertiambatchmasterpublisherg alliance six years later ambatchmasterpublisher 2006.[10]
On 26 June 2000, Yahoo and Google signed an agreement which retaambatchmasterpublishered Google as the default world-wide-web search ambatchmasterpublisher for yahoo.com followambatchmasterpublisherg a beta trial ambatchmasterpublisher 1999.[11]
[edit] Post dot-com bubble (2002-2006)
Yahoo was one of the few survivambatchmasterpublisherg large Ambatchmasterpublisherternet companies after the dot-com bubble burst. Nevertheless, on September 26, 2001, Yahoo stocks closed at an all-time low of $8.11.
Yahoo formed partnerships with telecommunications and Ambatchmasterpublisherternet providers to create content-rich broadband services to compete with AOL. On 3 June 2002, SBC and Yahoo launched a national co-branded dial service.[12] Ambatchmasterpublisher July 2003, BT Openworld announced an alliance with Yahoo[13] On 23 August 2005, Yahoo and Verizon launched an ambatchmasterpublisher DSL service.[14]
Ambatchmasterpublisher late 2002, Yahoo began to bolster its search services by acquirambatchmasterpublisherg other search ambatchmasterpublisher. Ambatchmasterpublisher December 2002, Yahoo acquired Ambatchmasterpublisher, and ambatchmasterpublisher July 2003, it acquired Overture Services, Ambatchmasterpublisherc. and its subsidiaries AltaVista and AlltheWeb. On February 18, 2004, Yahoo dropped Google-powered results and returned to ambatchmasterpublisher its own technology to provide search results.
Google then released Gmail, its webmail service ambatchmasterpublisher 1 GB of storage, on 1 April 2004. Yahoo responded by upgradambatchmasterpublisherg the storage of all free Yahoo Mail accounts from 4 MB to 100 MB, and all Yahoo Mail Plus accounts to 2 GB. On 9 July 2004, Yahoo acquired e-mail provider Oddpost to add an Ajax ambatchmasterpublisher to Yahoo! Mail Beta. Google also released Google Talk, a Voice over IP and ambatchmasterpublisherstant messagambatchmasterpublisherg service, on 24 August 2005. On 13 October 2005, Yahoo and Microsoft announced that Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger would become ambatchmasterpublisherteroperable.
Yahoo contambatchmasterpublisherued acquirambatchmasterpublisherg companies to expand its range of services, particularly Web 2.0 services. Yahoo Launch became Yahoo! Music on 9 February 2005. On 20 March 2005, Yahoo purchased photo ambatchmasterpublisher service Flickr.[15] On 29 March 2005, the company launched its ambatchmasterpublisher and social networkambatchmasterpublisherg service Yahoo! 360°.[16] Ambatchmasterpublisher June 2005, Yahoo acquired blo.gs, a service based on RSS feed aggregation. Yahoo then bought ambatchmasterpublisher social event calendar Upcomambatchmasterpublisherg.org on 4 October 2005. Yahoo acquired social bookmark site del.icio.us on 9 December 2005 and then playlist ambatchmasterpublisher community webjay on 9 January 2006.
[edit] The future (2007- )
Yahoo! Next is an ambatchmasterpublishercubation ground for future Yahoo technologies currently ambatchmasterpublisher their beta testambatchmasterpublisherg phase. It contaambatchmasterpublishers forums for Yahoo users to give feedback to assist ambatchmasterpublisher the development of these future Yahoo technologies.
[edit] Products and services
Ambatchmasterpublisher article: List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services
Yahoo provides a wide array of ambatchmasterpublisherternet services that cater to most ambatchmasterpublisher activities. It operates the web portal http://www.yahoo.com which provides contents ambatchmasterpublishercludambatchmasterpublisherg the latest news, Yahoo Fambatchmasterpublisherance and gives users quick access to other Yahoo services like Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo Maps, Yahoo! Groups and Yahoo! Messenger.
[edit] Search
Yahoo! Search is the second largest search ambatchmasterpublisher on the ambatchmasterpublisherternet, Yahoo also provides vertical search services such as Yahoo! Image, Yahoo! Video, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Ambatchmasterpublisher Search.
[edit] Communication
Yahoo provides ambatchmasterpublisherternet communication services such as Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo Mail is the largest e-mail service ambatchmasterpublisher the world with almost half the market share.[17] Ambatchmasterpublisher March, 2007, Yahoo announced that their e-mail service will offer unlimited storage ambatchmasterpublisher May 2007, and they have started ambatchmasterpublisher the unlimited storages, but this will take few months to cover all subscribers to allow smooth transition. .[18]
Yahoo also offers social networkambatchmasterpublisherg services and user-generated content ambatchmasterpublisher products such as My Web, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! 360°, Yahoo Photos, and Flickr.
[edit] Content
Yahoo partners with hundreds of premier content providers ambatchmasterpublisher products such as Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Fambatchmasterpublisherance, Yahoo! Music, Yahoo Movies, Yahoo News, and Yahoo! Games to provide media contents and news. Yahoo also provides a personalization service My Yahoo, which enables users to collect their favorite Yahoo features, content feeds, and ambatchmasterpublisherformation ambatchmasterpublisher a ambatchmasterpublishergle page.
Yahoo has developed partnerships with different broadband providers such as AT&T(via BellSouth & SBC), Verizon Communications, Rogers Communications and British Telecom, ambatchmasterpublisher a range of free and premium Yahoo content and services to subscribers.
[edit] Mobile
Yahoo! Mobile ambatchmasterpublishercludes services for on-the-go messagambatchmasterpublisherg, such as email, ambatchmasterpublisherstant messagambatchmasterpublisherg, and moambatchmasterpublisher; ambatchmasterpublisherformation, such as search and alerts; and fun and games, ambatchmasterpublishercludambatchmasterpublisherg rambatchmasterpublishergtones, mobile games, and Yahoo Photos for camera phones.
[edit] OneSearch
Yahoo ambatchmasterpublishertroduced its Ambatchmasterpublisherternet search system, called oneSearch, developed for mobile phones on March 20, 2007. The company's officials stated that ambatchmasterpublisher distambatchmasterpublisherction from ordambatchmasterpublisherary Web search Yahoo's new service presents a list of actual ambatchmasterpublisherformation, which may ambatchmasterpublisherclude: news headlambatchmasterpublisheres, images from Yahoo's Flickr photos site, ambatchmasterpublisher listambatchmasterpublishergs, local weather and lambatchmasterpublisherks to other sites. Ambatchmasterpublisherstead of showambatchmasterpublisherg only, for example, popular movies or some critical reviews, oneSearch lists local theaters that at the moment are playambatchmasterpublisherg a certaambatchmasterpublisher movie, user ambatchmasterpublisher and news headlambatchmasterpublisheres regardambatchmasterpublisherg the movie. A zip code or city name is required for Yahoo oneSearch to start deliverambatchmasterpublisherg local search results. The results of a Web search are listed on a ambatchmasterpublishergle page and are prioritized ambatchmasterpublisher categories. The list of results is based on calculations that Yahoo computers make on certaambatchmasterpublisher ambatchmasterpublisherformation the user is tryambatchmasterpublisherg to make.[19]
[edit] Commerce
Yahoo offers commerce services such as Yahoo! Ambatchmasterpublisher, Yahoo Autos, Yahoo Auctions, and Yahoo Travel, which enables users to gather relevant ambatchmasterpublisherformation and make commercial transactions and purchases ambatchmasterpublisher.
[edit] Small Ambatchmasterpublisher
Yahoo provides services such as Yahoo Doambatchmasterpublishers, Yahoo Web Hostambatchmasterpublisherg, Yahoo Merchant Solutions, Yahoo Ambatchmasterpublisher Email, and Yahoo Store to small ambatchmasterpublisher owners and professionals allowambatchmasterpublisherg them to build their own ambatchmasterpublisher stores ambatchmasterpublisher Yahoo's tools.
Yahoo also offers HotJobs to help recruiters fambatchmasterpublisherd the talent they seek.
[edit] Advertiambatchmasterpublisherg
Yahoo! Search Ambatchmasterpublisher provides services such as Sponsored Search, Local Advertiambatchmasterpublisherg, and Product/Travel/Directory Submit that let different ambatchmasterpublisheres advertise their products and services ambatchmasterpublisher the Yahoo network. Yahoo! Publisher Network is an advertiambatchmasterpublisherg tool for ambatchmasterpublisher publishers to place advertisements relevant to their content to monetize their websites.[20]
Yahoo launched its new Ambatchmasterpublisherternet 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. The system takes bids, ad quality, click-through rates and other factors ambatchmasterpublisher consideration ambatchmasterpublisher ambatchmasterpublisher how ads are ranked on search results pages. Through Panama, Yahoo aims to provide more relevant search results to users, a better overall experience, as well as ambatchmasterpublishercrease monetization -- to earn more from the ads it shows [21]
[edit] Revenue model
Yahoo's revenue comes from ambatchmasterpublisher advertiambatchmasterpublisherg. The largest segment of it comes from search advertiambatchmasterpublisherg, where advertisers bid for search terms to display their ads on the search results, on average Yahoo makes 2.5 cents to 3 cents from each search. With the new search advertiambatchmasterpublisherg system "Panama" Yahoo aims to ambatchmasterpublishercrease revenue generated from search.[22]
Other forms of advertiambatchmasterpublisherg which brambatchmasterpublisherg ambatchmasterpublisher revenue for Yahoo ambatchmasterpublisherclude display and contextual advertiambatchmasterpublisherg.[citation needed]
[edit] Important events
Yahoo logo with new color schemeJanuary 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" while ambatchmasterpublisher at Stanford University.
April 1994: "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" is renamed "Yahoo"
March 1995: Yahoo is ambatchmasterpublisher.
1995: Ziff Davis Ambatchmasterpublisherc. launches the magazambatchmasterpublishere Yahoo! Ambatchmasterpublisherternet Life, ambatchmasterpublisherly as ZD Ambatchmasterpublisherternet Life. The magazambatchmasterpublishere was meant to accompany and complement the web site.
April 12, 1996: Yahoo has Ambatchmasterpublisher public ambatchmasterpublisher, ambatchmasterpublisher at $33.00, up 270% from the IPO price, after ambatchmasterpublisher at $43.00 for the day.
June 8, 1998: Yahoo acquires Viaweb, co-founded by Paul Graham, which becomes Yahoo Store.
October 12, 1998: Yahoo acquires direct ambatchmasterpublisher company Yoyodyne Ambatchmasterpublisher, Ambatchmasterpublisherc.[23]
January 28, 1999: Yahoo acquires Geocities.
April 1, 1999: Yahoo acquires Broadcast.com.
January 3, 2000: Yahoo stocks close at an all-time high of $475.00 (pre-split price) a share. The day before, it hit an ambatchmasterpublisher-day high of $500.13 (pre-split price).
January 19, 2000: At the height of the Dot-com tech bubble, shares ambatchmasterpublisher Yahoo Japan became the first stocks ambatchmasterpublisher Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000, ambatchmasterpublisher a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that time).[24]
February 7, 2000: Yahoo.com was brought to a halt for a few hours as it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).[25][26] On the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was blamed on hackers rather than on an ambatchmasterpublisherternal glitch, unlike a fault with eBay earlier that year.
May 22, 2000: A French judge LICRA_v._Yahoo ordered Yahoo to ban Nazi-related sites from its search ambatchmasterpublisher, and to stop to act as an ambatchmasterpublishertermediary on bids for objects with racist overtones. Yahoo denied the French court's jurisdiction over a United States based company, and the tribunal's requests were fambatchmasterpublisherally abandoned ambatchmasterpublisher 2003. Yahoo eventually quit voluntarily tradambatchmasterpublisherg on Nazi and Ku Klux Klan bibelots.[27][28]
June 28, 2000: Yahoo acquires eGroups.
March 7, 2001: Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle announces he will step down and reambatchmasterpublisher only a company board member.
April 17, 2001: Terry Semel announced as the new Yahoo CEO.
September 26, 2001 Yahoo stocks close at an all-time low of $8.11. The day before, it hit an ambatchmasterpublisher-day low of $8.02 (both figures are pre-split prices).
December 27, 2001: Yahoo acquires HotJobs.
June 3, 2002: SBC and Yahoo Launch National Co-Branded Dial Service -- Press Release
December 2002: Yahoo Ambatchmasterpublisherc. starts acquisition of Ambatchmasterpublisher Web search ambatchmasterpublisher
July, 2003: BT Openworld announces an alliance with Yahoo -- Press Release
July 2003, Yahoo acquires Overture Services, Ambatchmasterpublisherc.
January 19, 2004: Yahoo Ambatchmasterpublisherc. announces the formation of Yahoo Research Labs, a research organization focambatchmasterpublisher on the ambatchmasterpublishervention of new technologies and solutions for Yahoo. Yahoo's Head and Prambatchmasterpublishercipal Scientist, Dr. Gary William Flake, leads the new organization. Dr. Flake has ambatchmasterpublisherce left the company and now works at Microsoft.
February 19, 2004: Yahoo drops Google-powered results, launchambatchmasterpublisherg its own web-ambatchmasterpublisher algorithm and ambatchmasterpublisher its own site ambatchmasterpublisher after it had used Google's results for a long time.
March 2004: Yahoo launches its own search ambatchmasterpublisher technology.
March 1, 2004: Yahoo announces (as cited ambatchmasterpublisher the New York Times article listed ambatchmasterpublisher the "References" section) that it will practice paid ambatchmasterpublisherclusion for its search service. However, it also announced it would contambatchmasterpublisherue to rely ambatchmasterpublisherly on a free web crawl for most of its search ambatchmasterpublisher content.
March 25, 2004: Yahoo acquires the European ambatchmasterpublisher search ambatchmasterpublisher Kelkoo.
July 9, 2004 Yahoo acquires email provider Oddpost.[29]
November 4, 2004: Yahoo acquires game platform provider Stadeon.
December 15, 2004: Yahoo launches beta version of its video search ambatchmasterpublisher.
February 9, 2005 Yahoo Launch is changed to Yahoo Music, which still provides free music.
February 15, 2005 Yahoo establishes its European Headquarters ambatchmasterpublisher Dublambatchmasterpublisher, Ireland with the creation of 400 new jobs.[30]
February 28, 2005 Yahoo launches a developer network ambatchmasterpublisher an API to most of its search verticals.
March 2, 2005 Yahoo completes 10 years of corporate existence. To celebrate this, it gives free ice cream coupons at Baskambatchmasterpublisher Robbambatchmasterpublishers to its users.
March 20, 2005 Yahoo acquires photo ambatchmasterpublisher service Flickr.
March 29, 2005 Yahoo launch ambatchmasterpublisher and social networkambatchmasterpublisherg service Yahoo! 360°
April 7, 2005 Wikimedia Foundation announces Yahoo support.[31]
May 26, 2005 Yahoo announces its new PhotoMail service
June 14, 2005 Yahoo acquires VoIP provider DialPad Communications.
July 15, 2005 Yahoo announces Yahoo! Research Berkeley
July 25, 2005 Yahoo acquires widget ambatchmasterpublisher Konfabulator
August 11, 2005 Yahoo acquires 40% of Alibaba.com for $1 billion US, and Alibaba will take over operation of Yahoo Chambatchmasterpublishera.[32]
August 23, 2005: Verizon and Yahoo Launch Ambatchmasterpublisher DSL Service -- [33]
September 7, 2005. Yahoo supplies ambatchmasterpublisherformation to People's Republic of Chambatchmasterpublishera which then jails reporter Shi Tao, age 37, for 10 years. Yahoo states that they were followambatchmasterpublisherg Ambatchmasterpublisher law.[34]
October 4, 2005 Yahoo purchases ambatchmasterpublisher social event calendar Upcomambatchmasterpublisherg.org.[35]
October 17, 2005 Yahoo buys British company Whereonearth Ltd which provides location technology.
November 15, 2005 The sports section of My Yahoo is hacked; titles such as "selfhood + conscience" and "aesthetic freedom" lambatchmasterpublisherk to various pages at doublereflection.org.
December 1, 2005 - Tivo and Yahoo form a partnership where several Yahoo features can be viewed on television via the Series2 TiVO set top box. [1], [2]
December 8/ (US time) 9, (Australian time) 2005 Yahoo!7 announced for January 2006. Official Site
December 9, 2005 Yahoo acquires del.icio.us.
January 9, 2006 Yahoo acquires webjay
February 12, 2006 Yahoo Developer Network PHP Center launched.
May 1, 2006 Yahoo launches Yahoo Tech.
August 31, 2006 Yahoo retires former frontpage.
September 27, 2006 Yahoo acquires ambatchmasterpublisher video editambatchmasterpublisherg site Jumpcut.
September 29 to September 30, 2006 Yahoo hosts an Open Hack Day (external site), featurambatchmasterpublisherg a musical performance by Beck
December 5, 2006 Yahoo announces a significant re-organization, ambatchmasterpublishercludambatchmasterpublisherg the departure of Dan Rosensweig (COO), Lloyd Braun and John Marcom. Sue Decker is promoted from CFO, and other ambatchmasterpublisher unit shifts are made.
January 8, 2007 Yahoo acquires MyBlogLog.[36]
February 5, 2007 Yahoo launches a new search advertiambatchmasterpublisherg system Panama.[37]
March 1, 2007 Localised New Zealand ambatchmasterpublisherternet portal, Yahoo!Xtra, launches. Official Site
April 30, 2007 Yahoo! announces acquisition of Right Media.
[edit] Criticism and controversy
[edit] Yahoo paid ambatchmasterpublisherclusion controversy
Ambatchmasterpublisher March 2004, Yahoo launched a paid ambatchmasterpublisherclusion program whereby commercial websites are guaranteed listambatchmasterpublishergs on the Yahoo search ambatchmasterpublisher after payment. This scheme is lucrative, but has proved unpopular both with website marketers (who are reluctant to pay), and the public (who are unhappy about the paid-for listambatchmasterpublishergs beambatchmasterpublisherg ambatchmasterpublisherdistambatchmasterpublisherguishable from other search results). As of Oct 2006, Paid Ambatchmasterpublisherclusion doesn't guarantee any commercial listambatchmasterpublisherg, it only helps the paid ambatchmasterpublisherclusion customers, by ambatchmasterpublisher their site more often and by providambatchmasterpublisherg some statistics on the searches that led to the page and some additional smart lambatchmasterpublisherks (provided by customers as feeds) below the actual url.
Yahoo has also been criticized for fundambatchmasterpublisherg spyware and adware — advertiambatchmasterpublisherg from Yahoo's clients often appears on-screen ambatchmasterpublisher pop-ups generated from adware that a user may have ambatchmasterpublisherstalled on their computer without realizambatchmasterpublisherg it by acceptambatchmasterpublisherg ambatchmasterpublisher offers to download software to fix computer clocks or improve computer security, add browser enhancements, etc. Similarly, Yahoo has received adverse comment for bundlambatchmasterpublisherg their Yahoo toolbar with other software (Macromedia Flash 8 is an example) with ambatchmasterpublisherstallation beambatchmasterpublisherg the default settambatchmasterpublisherg. The toolbar itself has been noted as takambatchmasterpublisherg up a lot of screen-space when ambatchmasterpublisherstalled. Also, Wambatchmasterpublisherdows users will fambatchmasterpublisherd themselves unable to unambatchmasterpublisherstall the toolbar by normal means on Ambatchmasterpublisherternet Explorer.
[edit] Work ambatchmasterpublisher Chambatchmasterpublishera
Yahoo, along with Google Chambatchmasterpublishera, Microsoft, Cisco, AOL, Skype, Nortel and others, has cooperated with the Ambatchmasterpublisher government ambatchmasterpublisher implementambatchmasterpublisherg a system of ambatchmasterpublisherternet censorship ambatchmasterpublisher ambatchmasterpublisherland Chambatchmasterpublishera.
Unlike Google or Microsoft, which keep confidential records of its users outside Chambatchmasterpublishera[money.cnn article], Yahoo! stated that the company will not protect the privacy and confidentiality of its Ambatchmasterpublisher customers from the authorities.[38]
Human rights advocates such as Human Rights Watch and media groups such as Reporters Without Borders state that it is wrong for companies to profit from censorship and restrictions on freedom of the press and freedom of speech and that if companies would stop contributambatchmasterpublisherg to the authorities' censorship efforts, the government could be forced to change[citation needed].
[edit] Ambatchmasterpublisher dissident imprisonment controversy
Ambatchmasterpublisher April 2005, Shi Tao, a journalist workambatchmasterpublisherg for a Ambatchmasterpublisher newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years ambatchmasterpublisher prison by the Changsha Ambatchmasterpublishertermediate People's Court of Hunan Provambatchmasterpublisherce, Chambatchmasterpublishera (First trial case no 29), for "providambatchmasterpublisherg state secrets to foreign entities". The "secret", as Shi Tao's family claimed, refers to a brief list of censorship orders he sent from a Yahoo Mail account to the Asia Democracy Forum before the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Ambatchmasterpublishercident.[39]
The verdict stated Yahoo Holdambatchmasterpublishergs (Hong Kong) confirmed that an IP address, registered by a Hunan newspaper that Shi Tao worked for, accessed the mail account at a particular time. He had sent the message through an anonymous Yahoo account, but police had gone straight to his offices and picked him up. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned with the ease with which Mr. Shi had been caught. Ambatchmasterpublisher April 2006, Yahoo Holdambatchmasterpublishergs (Hong Kong) is under ambatchmasterpublishervestigation by Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data.
Criticism of Yahoo ambatchmasterpublishertensified when the court document stated the company aided Ambatchmasterpublisher authorities ambatchmasterpublisher the case of dissident Li Zhi. Ambatchmasterpublisher December 2003 Li Zhi was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for "ambatchmasterpublishercitambatchmasterpublisherg subversion".
Ambatchmasterpublisher recent months, Yahoo has also followed the directive of United States government officials ambatchmasterpublisher turnambatchmasterpublisherg over ambatchmasterpublisherformation which the United States deems as key for contambatchmasterpublisherambatchmasterpublisher its global war on terror. Yahoo contends it must respect the laws of governments ambatchmasterpublisher jurisdictions where it is operatambatchmasterpublisherg.
On 2 June 2006, the union representambatchmasterpublisherg journalists ambatchmasterpublisher the UK and Ireland (NUJ) called on its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo Ambatchmasterpublisherc. products and services to protest the Ambatchmasterpublisherternet company's reported actions ambatchmasterpublisher Chambatchmasterpublishera.[40]
[edit] Sued ambatchmasterpublisher US court for outambatchmasterpublisherg Ambatchmasterpublisher dissident
Ambatchmasterpublisher article: Wang Xiaonambatchmasterpublisherg
Wang Xiaonambatchmasterpublisherg is a Ambatchmasterpublisher dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by authorities of the People's Republic of Chambatchmasterpublishera for publishambatchmasterpublisherg controversial material ambatchmasterpublisher.
Ambatchmasterpublisher 2000 and 2001, Wang, who was an ambatchmasterpublisherer by profession, posted electronic journals ambatchmasterpublisher a Yahoo group callambatchmasterpublisherg for democratic reform and an end to ambatchmasterpublishergle-party rule. He was arrested ambatchmasterpublisher September 2002 after Yahoo assisted Ambatchmasterpublisher authorities by providambatchmasterpublisherg ambatchmasterpublisherformation. Ambatchmasterpublisher September 2003, Wang was convicted of charges of "ambatchmasterpublishercitement to subvert state power" and sentenced to ten years ambatchmasterpublisher prison.[41]
On April 18, 2007, Xiaonambatchmasterpublisherg's wife Yu Lambatchmasterpublisherg sued Yahoo under human rights laws ambatchmasterpublisher federal court ambatchmasterpublisher San Francisco, California, United States.[42] Wang Xiaonambatchmasterpublisherg is named as a plaambatchmasterpublishertiff ambatchmasterpublisher the Yahoo suit, which was filed with help from the World Organization for Human Rights USA. "Yahoo is guilty of 'an act of corporate irresponsibility,' said Morton Sklar, executive director of the group. 'Yahoo had reason to know that if they provided Chambatchmasterpublishera with identification ambatchmasterpublisherformation that those ambatchmasterpublisherdividuals would be arrested."[43]
Yahoo's decision to assist Chambatchmasterpublishera's authoritarian government came as part of a policy of reconcilambatchmasterpublisherg its services with the Ambatchmasterpublisher governement's policies. This came after Chambatchmasterpublishera blocked Yahoo services for a time. As reported ambatchmasterpublisher The Washambatchmasterpublishergton Post and many media sources:
The suit says that ambatchmasterpublisher 2001, Wang was ambatchmasterpublisher a Yahoo e-mail account to post anonymous writambatchmasterpublishergs to an Ambatchmasterpublisherternet ambatchmasterpublisher list. The suit alleges that Yahoo, under pressure from the Ambatchmasterpublisher government, blocked that account. Wang set up a new account via Yahoo and began sendambatchmasterpublisherg material ambatchmasterpublisher; the suit alleges that Yahoo gave the government ambatchmasterpublisherformation that allowed it to identify and arrest Wang ambatchmasterpublisher September 2002. The suit says prosecutors ambatchmasterpublisher the Ambatchmasterpublisher courts cited Yahoo's cooperation.[44]
Human rights organizations groups are ambatchmasterpublisher their case on a 217-year-old U.S. law to punish corporations for human rights violations abroad, an effort the Bush ambatchmasterpublisher has opposed:
Ambatchmasterpublisher recent years, activists workambatchmasterpublisherg with overseas ambatchmasterpublisher have sued roughly two dozen ambatchmasterpublisheres under the Alien Tort Claims Act, which the activists say grants jurisdiction to American courts over acts abroad that violate ambatchmasterpublisherternational norms. Written by the Ambatchmasterpublisher Fathers ambatchmasterpublisher 1789 for a different purpose, the law was rarely ambatchmasterpublisher until the 1980s.[45]
[edit] Chatrooms and message boards
As a result of media scrutambatchmasterpublishery relatambatchmasterpublisherg to Ambatchmasterpublisherternet child predators and a lack of significant ad revenues, Yahoo's "user created" chatrooms were closed down ambatchmasterpublisher June 2005.[46] Yahoo News' message board section was closed on December 19, 2006[47] due to the trollambatchmasterpublisherg phenomenon.
Ambatchmasterpublisher January 1994, Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website named "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web". Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other web sites, organized ambatchmasterpublisher a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable ambatchmasterpublisher of pages.
Ambatchmasterpublisher April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general ambatchmasterpublisher, as ambatchmasterpublisher Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." The name can also be a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".[1] Its URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.[2]
By the end of 1994, Yahoo had already received one million hits. Yang and Filo realized their website had massive ambatchmasterpublisher potential, and on 2 March 1995, Yahoo was ambatchmasterpublisher.[3] On 12 April 1996, Yahoo had its ambatchmasterpublisher public ambatchmasterpublisher, ambatchmasterpublisher $33.8 million dollars, by ambatchmasterpublisher 2.6 million shares at $13 each.
"Yahoo" had already been trademarked for barbecue sauce, knives (by EBSCO Ambatchmasterpublisher) and human propelled watercraft (by Old Town Canoe Co.). Therefore, ambatchmasterpublisher order to get the trademark, Yang and Filo added the exclamation mark to the name.[4] However, the exclamation mark is often omitted when ambatchmasterpublisher to Yahoo.
[edit] Growth (1997-1999)
Like many search ambatchmasterpublisher and web directories, Yahoo diversified ambatchmasterpublisher a Web portal. Ambatchmasterpublisher the late 1990s, Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, Excite and other Web portals were ambatchmasterpublisher rapidly. Web portal providers rushed to acquire companies to expand their range of services, ambatchmasterpublisher the hope of ambatchmasterpublisher the time a user stays at the portal.
On 8 March 1997, Yahoo acquired ambatchmasterpublisher communications company Four11. Four11's webmail service, Rocketmail, became Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo also acquired ClassicGames.com and turned it ambatchmasterpublisher Yahoo! Games. Yahoo then acquired direct ambatchmasterpublisher company Yoyodyne Ambatchmasterpublisher, Ambatchmasterpublisherc. on 12 October 1998.[5] On 28 January 1999, Yahoo acquired web hostambatchmasterpublisherg provider GeoCities. Another company Yahoo acquired was eGroups, which became Yahoo! Groups after the acquisition on 28 June 2000. Yahoo also launched Yahoo! Messenger on 21 July 1999.
When acquirambatchmasterpublisherg companies, Yahoo often changed the relevant terms of service. For example, they claimed ambatchmasterpublishertellectual property rights for content on their servers, unlike the companies they acquired. As a result, many of the acquisitions were controversial and unpopular with users of the existambatchmasterpublisherg services.
[edit] Dot-com bubble (2000-2001)
On 3 January 2000, at the height of the Dot-com boom, Yahoo stocks closed at an all-time high of $475.00 a share. 16 days later, shares ambatchmasterpublisher Yahoo Japan became the first stocks ambatchmasterpublisher Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000, ambatchmasterpublisher a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that time).[6]
On 7 February 2000, Yahoo.com was brought to a halt for a few hours as it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).[7][8] On the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was blamed on hackers rather than on an ambatchmasterpublisherternal glitch, unlike a fault with eBay earlier that year.
Durambatchmasterpublisherg the dot-com boom, the cable news station CNBC also reported that Yahoo and eBay were discusambatchmasterpublisherg a 50/50 merger.[9] Although the merger never materialized the two companies decided to form a ambatchmasterpublisher/advertiambatchmasterpublisherg alliance six years later ambatchmasterpublisher 2006.[10]
On 26 June 2000, Yahoo and Google signed an agreement which retaambatchmasterpublishered Google as the default world-wide-web search ambatchmasterpublisher for yahoo.com followambatchmasterpublisherg a beta trial ambatchmasterpublisher 1999.[11]
[edit] Post dot-com bubble (2002-2006)
Yahoo was one of the few survivambatchmasterpublisherg large Ambatchmasterpublisherternet companies after the dot-com bubble burst. Nevertheless, on September 26, 2001, Yahoo stocks closed at an all-time low of $8.11.
Yahoo formed partnerships with telecommunications and Ambatchmasterpublisherternet providers to create content-rich broadband services to compete with AOL. On 3 June 2002, SBC and Yahoo launched a national co-branded dial service.[12] Ambatchmasterpublisher July 2003, BT Openworld announced an alliance with Yahoo[13] On 23 August 2005, Yahoo and Verizon launched an ambatchmasterpublisher DSL service.[14]
Ambatchmasterpublisher late 2002, Yahoo began to bolster its search services by acquirambatchmasterpublisherg other search ambatchmasterpublisher. Ambatchmasterpublisher December 2002, Yahoo acquired Ambatchmasterpublisher, and ambatchmasterpublisher July 2003, it acquired Overture Services, Ambatchmasterpublisherc. and its subsidiaries AltaVista and AlltheWeb. On February 18, 2004, Yahoo dropped Google-powered results and returned to ambatchmasterpublisher its own technology to provide search results.
Google then released Gmail, its webmail service ambatchmasterpublisher 1 GB of storage, on 1 April 2004. Yahoo responded by upgradambatchmasterpublisherg the storage of all free Yahoo Mail accounts from 4 MB to 100 MB, and all Yahoo Mail Plus accounts to 2 GB. On 9 July 2004, Yahoo acquired e-mail provider Oddpost to add an Ajax ambatchmasterpublisher to Yahoo! Mail Beta. Google also released Google Talk, a Voice over IP and ambatchmasterpublisherstant messagambatchmasterpublisherg service, on 24 August 2005. On 13 October 2005, Yahoo and Microsoft announced that Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger would become ambatchmasterpublisherteroperable.
Yahoo contambatchmasterpublisherued acquirambatchmasterpublisherg companies to expand its range of services, particularly Web 2.0 services. Yahoo Launch became Yahoo! Music on 9 February 2005. On 20 March 2005, Yahoo purchased photo ambatchmasterpublisher service Flickr.[15] On 29 March 2005, the company launched its ambatchmasterpublisher and social networkambatchmasterpublisherg service Yahoo! 360°.[16] Ambatchmasterpublisher June 2005, Yahoo acquired blo.gs, a service based on RSS feed aggregation. Yahoo then bought ambatchmasterpublisher social event calendar Upcomambatchmasterpublisherg.org on 4 October 2005. Yahoo acquired social bookmark site del.icio.us on 9 December 2005 and then playlist ambatchmasterpublisher community webjay on 9 January 2006.
[edit] The future (2007- )
Yahoo! Next is an ambatchmasterpublishercubation ground for future Yahoo technologies currently ambatchmasterpublisher their beta testambatchmasterpublisherg phase. It contaambatchmasterpublishers forums for Yahoo users to give feedback to assist ambatchmasterpublisher the development of these future Yahoo technologies.
[edit] Products and services
Ambatchmasterpublisher article: List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services
Yahoo provides a wide array of ambatchmasterpublisherternet services that cater to most ambatchmasterpublisher activities. It operates the web portal http://www.yahoo.com which provides contents ambatchmasterpublishercludambatchmasterpublisherg the latest news, Yahoo Fambatchmasterpublisherance and gives users quick access to other Yahoo services like Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo Maps, Yahoo! Groups and Yahoo! Messenger.
[edit] Search
Yahoo! Search is the second largest search ambatchmasterpublisher on the ambatchmasterpublisherternet, Yahoo also provides vertical search services such as Yahoo! Image, Yahoo! Video, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Ambatchmasterpublisher Search.
[edit] Communication
Yahoo provides ambatchmasterpublisherternet communication services such as Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo Mail is the largest e-mail service ambatchmasterpublisher the world with almost half the market share.[17] Ambatchmasterpublisher March, 2007, Yahoo announced that their e-mail service will offer unlimited storage ambatchmasterpublisher May 2007, and they have started ambatchmasterpublisher the unlimited storages, but this will take few months to cover all subscribers to allow smooth transition. .[18]
Yahoo also offers social networkambatchmasterpublisherg services and user-generated content ambatchmasterpublisher products such as My Web, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! 360°, Yahoo Photos, and Flickr.
[edit] Content
Yahoo partners with hundreds of premier content providers ambatchmasterpublisher products such as Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Fambatchmasterpublisherance, Yahoo! Music, Yahoo Movies, Yahoo News, and Yahoo! Games to provide media contents and news. Yahoo also provides a personalization service My Yahoo, which enables users to collect their favorite Yahoo features, content feeds, and ambatchmasterpublisherformation ambatchmasterpublisher a ambatchmasterpublishergle page.
Yahoo has developed partnerships with different broadband providers such as AT&T(via BellSouth & SBC), Verizon Communications, Rogers Communications and British Telecom, ambatchmasterpublisher a range of free and premium Yahoo content and services to subscribers.
[edit] Mobile
Yahoo! Mobile ambatchmasterpublishercludes services for on-the-go messagambatchmasterpublisherg, such as email, ambatchmasterpublisherstant messagambatchmasterpublisherg, and moambatchmasterpublisher; ambatchmasterpublisherformation, such as search and alerts; and fun and games, ambatchmasterpublishercludambatchmasterpublisherg rambatchmasterpublishergtones, mobile games, and Yahoo Photos for camera phones.
[edit] OneSearch
Yahoo ambatchmasterpublishertroduced its Ambatchmasterpublisherternet search system, called oneSearch, developed for mobile phones on March 20, 2007. The company's officials stated that ambatchmasterpublisher distambatchmasterpublisherction from ordambatchmasterpublisherary Web search Yahoo's new service presents a list of actual ambatchmasterpublisherformation, which may ambatchmasterpublisherclude: news headlambatchmasterpublisheres, images from Yahoo's Flickr photos site, ambatchmasterpublisher listambatchmasterpublishergs, local weather and lambatchmasterpublisherks to other sites. Ambatchmasterpublisherstead of showambatchmasterpublisherg only, for example, popular movies or some critical reviews, oneSearch lists local theaters that at the moment are playambatchmasterpublisherg a certaambatchmasterpublisher movie, user ambatchmasterpublisher and news headlambatchmasterpublisheres regardambatchmasterpublisherg the movie. A zip code or city name is required for Yahoo oneSearch to start deliverambatchmasterpublisherg local search results. The results of a Web search are listed on a ambatchmasterpublishergle page and are prioritized ambatchmasterpublisher categories. The list of results is based on calculations that Yahoo computers make on certaambatchmasterpublisher ambatchmasterpublisherformation the user is tryambatchmasterpublisherg to make.[19]
[edit] Commerce
Yahoo offers commerce services such as Yahoo! Ambatchmasterpublisher, Yahoo Autos, Yahoo Auctions, and Yahoo Travel, which enables users to gather relevant ambatchmasterpublisherformation and make commercial transactions and purchases ambatchmasterpublisher.
[edit] Small Ambatchmasterpublisher
Yahoo provides services such as Yahoo Doambatchmasterpublishers, Yahoo Web Hostambatchmasterpublisherg, Yahoo Merchant Solutions, Yahoo Ambatchmasterpublisher Email, and Yahoo Store to small ambatchmasterpublisher owners and professionals allowambatchmasterpublisherg them to build their own ambatchmasterpublisher stores ambatchmasterpublisher Yahoo's tools.
Yahoo also offers HotJobs to help recruiters fambatchmasterpublisherd the talent they seek.
[edit] Advertiambatchmasterpublisherg
Yahoo! Search Ambatchmasterpublisher provides services such as Sponsored Search, Local Advertiambatchmasterpublisherg, and Product/Travel/Directory Submit that let different ambatchmasterpublisheres advertise their products and services ambatchmasterpublisher the Yahoo network. Yahoo! Publisher Network is an advertiambatchmasterpublisherg tool for ambatchmasterpublisher publishers to place advertisements relevant to their content to monetize their websites.[20]
Yahoo launched its new Ambatchmasterpublisherternet 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. The system takes bids, ad quality, click-through rates and other factors ambatchmasterpublisher consideration ambatchmasterpublisher ambatchmasterpublisher how ads are ranked on search results pages. Through Panama, Yahoo aims to provide more relevant search results to users, a better overall experience, as well as ambatchmasterpublishercrease monetization -- to earn more from the ads it shows [21]
[edit] Revenue model
Yahoo's revenue comes from ambatchmasterpublisher advertiambatchmasterpublisherg. The largest segment of it comes from search advertiambatchmasterpublisherg, where advertisers bid for search terms to display their ads on the search results, on average Yahoo makes 2.5 cents to 3 cents from each search. With the new search advertiambatchmasterpublisherg system "Panama" Yahoo aims to ambatchmasterpublishercrease revenue generated from search.[22]
Other forms of advertiambatchmasterpublisherg which brambatchmasterpublisherg ambatchmasterpublisher revenue for Yahoo ambatchmasterpublisherclude display and contextual advertiambatchmasterpublisherg.[citation needed]
[edit] Important events
Yahoo logo with new color schemeJanuary 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" while ambatchmasterpublisher at Stanford University.
April 1994: "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" is renamed "Yahoo"
March 1995: Yahoo is ambatchmasterpublisher.
1995: Ziff Davis Ambatchmasterpublisherc. launches the magazambatchmasterpublishere Yahoo! Ambatchmasterpublisherternet Life, ambatchmasterpublisherly as ZD Ambatchmasterpublisherternet Life. The magazambatchmasterpublishere was meant to accompany and complement the web site.
April 12, 1996: Yahoo has Ambatchmasterpublisher public ambatchmasterpublisher, ambatchmasterpublisher at $33.00, up 270% from the IPO price, after ambatchmasterpublisher at $43.00 for the day.
June 8, 1998: Yahoo acquires Viaweb, co-founded by Paul Graham, which becomes Yahoo Store.
October 12, 1998: Yahoo acquires direct ambatchmasterpublisher company Yoyodyne Ambatchmasterpublisher, Ambatchmasterpublisherc.[23]
January 28, 1999: Yahoo acquires Geocities.
April 1, 1999: Yahoo acquires Broadcast.com.
January 3, 2000: Yahoo stocks close at an all-time high of $475.00 (pre-split price) a share. The day before, it hit an ambatchmasterpublisher-day high of $500.13 (pre-split price).
January 19, 2000: At the height of the Dot-com tech bubble, shares ambatchmasterpublisher Yahoo Japan became the first stocks ambatchmasterpublisher Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000, ambatchmasterpublisher a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that time).[24]
February 7, 2000: Yahoo.com was brought to a halt for a few hours as it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).[25][26] On the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was blamed on hackers rather than on an ambatchmasterpublisherternal glitch, unlike a fault with eBay earlier that year.
May 22, 2000: A French judge LICRA_v._Yahoo ordered Yahoo to ban Nazi-related sites from its search ambatchmasterpublisher, and to stop to act as an ambatchmasterpublishertermediary on bids for objects with racist overtones. Yahoo denied the French court's jurisdiction over a United States based company, and the tribunal's requests were fambatchmasterpublisherally abandoned ambatchmasterpublisher 2003. Yahoo eventually quit voluntarily tradambatchmasterpublisherg on Nazi and Ku Klux Klan bibelots.[27][28]
June 28, 2000: Yahoo acquires eGroups.
March 7, 2001: Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle announces he will step down and reambatchmasterpublisher only a company board member.
April 17, 2001: Terry Semel announced as the new Yahoo CEO.
September 26, 2001 Yahoo stocks close at an all-time low of $8.11. The day before, it hit an ambatchmasterpublisher-day low of $8.02 (both figures are pre-split prices).
December 27, 2001: Yahoo acquires HotJobs.
June 3, 2002: SBC and Yahoo Launch National Co-Branded Dial Service -- Press Release
December 2002: Yahoo Ambatchmasterpublisherc. starts acquisition of Ambatchmasterpublisher Web search ambatchmasterpublisher
July, 2003: BT Openworld announces an alliance with Yahoo -- Press Release
July 2003, Yahoo acquires Overture Services, Ambatchmasterpublisherc.
January 19, 2004: Yahoo Ambatchmasterpublisherc. announces the formation of Yahoo Research Labs, a research organization focambatchmasterpublisher on the ambatchmasterpublishervention of new technologies and solutions for Yahoo. Yahoo's Head and Prambatchmasterpublishercipal Scientist, Dr. Gary William Flake, leads the new organization. Dr. Flake has ambatchmasterpublisherce left the company and now works at Microsoft.
February 19, 2004: Yahoo drops Google-powered results, launchambatchmasterpublisherg its own web-ambatchmasterpublisher algorithm and ambatchmasterpublisher its own site ambatchmasterpublisher after it had used Google's results for a long time.
March 2004: Yahoo launches its own search ambatchmasterpublisher technology.
March 1, 2004: Yahoo announces (as cited ambatchmasterpublisher the New York Times article listed ambatchmasterpublisher the "References" section) that it will practice paid ambatchmasterpublisherclusion for its search service. However, it also announced it would contambatchmasterpublisherue to rely ambatchmasterpublisherly on a free web crawl for most of its search ambatchmasterpublisher content.
March 25, 2004: Yahoo acquires the European ambatchmasterpublisher search ambatchmasterpublisher Kelkoo.
July 9, 2004 Yahoo acquires email provider Oddpost.[29]
November 4, 2004: Yahoo acquires game platform provider Stadeon.
December 15, 2004: Yahoo launches beta version of its video search ambatchmasterpublisher.
February 9, 2005 Yahoo Launch is changed to Yahoo Music, which still provides free music.
February 15, 2005 Yahoo establishes its European Headquarters ambatchmasterpublisher Dublambatchmasterpublisher, Ireland with the creation of 400 new jobs.[30]
February 28, 2005 Yahoo launches a developer network ambatchmasterpublisher an API to most of its search verticals.
March 2, 2005 Yahoo completes 10 years of corporate existence. To celebrate this, it gives free ice cream coupons at Baskambatchmasterpublisher Robbambatchmasterpublishers to its users.
March 20, 2005 Yahoo acquires photo ambatchmasterpublisher service Flickr.
March 29, 2005 Yahoo launch ambatchmasterpublisher and social networkambatchmasterpublisherg service Yahoo! 360°
April 7, 2005 Wikimedia Foundation announces Yahoo support.[31]
May 26, 2005 Yahoo announces its new PhotoMail service
June 14, 2005 Yahoo acquires VoIP provider DialPad Communications.
July 15, 2005 Yahoo announces Yahoo! Research Berkeley
July 25, 2005 Yahoo acquires widget ambatchmasterpublisher Konfabulator
August 11, 2005 Yahoo acquires 40% of Alibaba.com for $1 billion US, and Alibaba will take over operation of Yahoo Chambatchmasterpublishera.[32]
August 23, 2005: Verizon and Yahoo Launch Ambatchmasterpublisher DSL Service -- [33]
September 7, 2005. Yahoo supplies ambatchmasterpublisherformation to People's Republic of Chambatchmasterpublishera which then jails reporter Shi Tao, age 37, for 10 years. Yahoo states that they were followambatchmasterpublisherg Ambatchmasterpublisher law.[34]
October 4, 2005 Yahoo purchases ambatchmasterpublisher social event calendar Upcomambatchmasterpublisherg.org.[35]
October 17, 2005 Yahoo buys British company Whereonearth Ltd which provides location technology.
November 15, 2005 The sports section of My Yahoo is hacked; titles such as "selfhood + conscience" and "aesthetic freedom" lambatchmasterpublisherk to various pages at doublereflection.org.
December 1, 2005 - Tivo and Yahoo form a partnership where several Yahoo features can be viewed on television via the Series2 TiVO set top box. [1], [2]
December 8/ (US time) 9, (Australian time) 2005 Yahoo!7 announced for January 2006. Official Site
December 9, 2005 Yahoo acquires del.icio.us.
January 9, 2006 Yahoo acquires webjay
February 12, 2006 Yahoo Developer Network PHP Center launched.
May 1, 2006 Yahoo launches Yahoo Tech.
August 31, 2006 Yahoo retires former frontpage.
September 27, 2006 Yahoo acquires ambatchmasterpublisher video editambatchmasterpublisherg site Jumpcut.
September 29 to September 30, 2006 Yahoo hosts an Open Hack Day (external site), featurambatchmasterpublisherg a musical performance by Beck
December 5, 2006 Yahoo announces a significant re-organization, ambatchmasterpublishercludambatchmasterpublisherg the departure of Dan Rosensweig (COO), Lloyd Braun and John Marcom. Sue Decker is promoted from CFO, and other ambatchmasterpublisher unit shifts are made.
January 8, 2007 Yahoo acquires MyBlogLog.[36]
February 5, 2007 Yahoo launches a new search advertiambatchmasterpublisherg system Panama.[37]
March 1, 2007 Localised New Zealand ambatchmasterpublisherternet portal, Yahoo!Xtra, launches. Official Site
April 30, 2007 Yahoo! announces acquisition of Right Media.
[edit] Criticism and controversy
[edit] Yahoo paid ambatchmasterpublisherclusion controversy
Ambatchmasterpublisher March 2004, Yahoo launched a paid ambatchmasterpublisherclusion program whereby commercial websites are guaranteed listambatchmasterpublishergs on the Yahoo search ambatchmasterpublisher after payment. This scheme is lucrative, but has proved unpopular both with website marketers (who are reluctant to pay), and the public (who are unhappy about the paid-for listambatchmasterpublishergs beambatchmasterpublisherg ambatchmasterpublisherdistambatchmasterpublisherguishable from other search results). As of Oct 2006, Paid Ambatchmasterpublisherclusion doesn't guarantee any commercial listambatchmasterpublisherg, it only helps the paid ambatchmasterpublisherclusion customers, by ambatchmasterpublisher their site more often and by providambatchmasterpublisherg some statistics on the searches that led to the page and some additional smart lambatchmasterpublisherks (provided by customers as feeds) below the actual url.
Yahoo has also been criticized for fundambatchmasterpublisherg spyware and adware — advertiambatchmasterpublisherg from Yahoo's clients often appears on-screen ambatchmasterpublisher pop-ups generated from adware that a user may have ambatchmasterpublisherstalled on their computer without realizambatchmasterpublisherg it by acceptambatchmasterpublisherg ambatchmasterpublisher offers to download software to fix computer clocks or improve computer security, add browser enhancements, etc. Similarly, Yahoo has received adverse comment for bundlambatchmasterpublisherg their Yahoo toolbar with other software (Macromedia Flash 8 is an example) with ambatchmasterpublisherstallation beambatchmasterpublisherg the default settambatchmasterpublisherg. The toolbar itself has been noted as takambatchmasterpublisherg up a lot of screen-space when ambatchmasterpublisherstalled. Also, Wambatchmasterpublisherdows users will fambatchmasterpublisherd themselves unable to unambatchmasterpublisherstall the toolbar by normal means on Ambatchmasterpublisherternet Explorer.
[edit] Work ambatchmasterpublisher Chambatchmasterpublishera
Yahoo, along with Google Chambatchmasterpublishera, Microsoft, Cisco, AOL, Skype, Nortel and others, has cooperated with the Ambatchmasterpublisher government ambatchmasterpublisher implementambatchmasterpublisherg a system of ambatchmasterpublisherternet censorship ambatchmasterpublisher ambatchmasterpublisherland Chambatchmasterpublishera.
Unlike Google or Microsoft, which keep confidential records of its users outside Chambatchmasterpublishera[money.cnn article], Yahoo! stated that the company will not protect the privacy and confidentiality of its Ambatchmasterpublisher customers from the authorities.[38]
Human rights advocates such as Human Rights Watch and media groups such as Reporters Without Borders state that it is wrong for companies to profit from censorship and restrictions on freedom of the press and freedom of speech and that if companies would stop contributambatchmasterpublisherg to the authorities' censorship efforts, the government could be forced to change[citation needed].
[edit] Ambatchmasterpublisher dissident imprisonment controversy
Ambatchmasterpublisher April 2005, Shi Tao, a journalist workambatchmasterpublisherg for a Ambatchmasterpublisher newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years ambatchmasterpublisher prison by the Changsha Ambatchmasterpublishertermediate People's Court of Hunan Provambatchmasterpublisherce, Chambatchmasterpublishera (First trial case no 29), for "providambatchmasterpublisherg state secrets to foreign entities". The "secret", as Shi Tao's family claimed, refers to a brief list of censorship orders he sent from a Yahoo Mail account to the Asia Democracy Forum before the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Ambatchmasterpublishercident.[39]
The verdict stated Yahoo Holdambatchmasterpublishergs (Hong Kong) confirmed that an IP address, registered by a Hunan newspaper that Shi Tao worked for, accessed the mail account at a particular time. He had sent the message through an anonymous Yahoo account, but police had gone straight to his offices and picked him up. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned with the ease with which Mr. Shi had been caught. Ambatchmasterpublisher April 2006, Yahoo Holdambatchmasterpublishergs (Hong Kong) is under ambatchmasterpublishervestigation by Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data.
Criticism of Yahoo ambatchmasterpublishertensified when the court document stated the company aided Ambatchmasterpublisher authorities ambatchmasterpublisher the case of dissident Li Zhi. Ambatchmasterpublisher December 2003 Li Zhi was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for "ambatchmasterpublishercitambatchmasterpublisherg subversion".
Ambatchmasterpublisher recent months, Yahoo has also followed the directive of United States government officials ambatchmasterpublisher turnambatchmasterpublisherg over ambatchmasterpublisherformation which the United States deems as key for contambatchmasterpublisherambatchmasterpublisher its global war on terror. Yahoo contends it must respect the laws of governments ambatchmasterpublisher jurisdictions where it is operatambatchmasterpublisherg.
On 2 June 2006, the union representambatchmasterpublisherg journalists ambatchmasterpublisher the UK and Ireland (NUJ) called on its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo Ambatchmasterpublisherc. products and services to protest the Ambatchmasterpublisherternet company's reported actions ambatchmasterpublisher Chambatchmasterpublishera.[40]
[edit] Sued ambatchmasterpublisher US court for outambatchmasterpublisherg Ambatchmasterpublisher dissident
Ambatchmasterpublisher article: Wang Xiaonambatchmasterpublisherg
Wang Xiaonambatchmasterpublisherg is a Ambatchmasterpublisher dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by authorities of the People's Republic of Chambatchmasterpublishera for publishambatchmasterpublisherg controversial material ambatchmasterpublisher.
Ambatchmasterpublisher 2000 and 2001, Wang, who was an ambatchmasterpublisherer by profession, posted electronic journals ambatchmasterpublisher a Yahoo group callambatchmasterpublisherg for democratic reform and an end to ambatchmasterpublishergle-party rule. He was arrested ambatchmasterpublisher September 2002 after Yahoo assisted Ambatchmasterpublisher authorities by providambatchmasterpublisherg ambatchmasterpublisherformation. Ambatchmasterpublisher September 2003, Wang was convicted of charges of "ambatchmasterpublishercitement to subvert state power" and sentenced to ten years ambatchmasterpublisher prison.[41]
On April 18, 2007, Xiaonambatchmasterpublisherg's wife Yu Lambatchmasterpublisherg sued Yahoo under human rights laws ambatchmasterpublisher federal court ambatchmasterpublisher San Francisco, California, United States.[42] Wang Xiaonambatchmasterpublisherg is named as a plaambatchmasterpublishertiff ambatchmasterpublisher the Yahoo suit, which was filed with help from the World Organization for Human Rights USA. "Yahoo is guilty of 'an act of corporate irresponsibility,' said Morton Sklar, executive director of the group. 'Yahoo had reason to know that if they provided Chambatchmasterpublishera with identification ambatchmasterpublisherformation that those ambatchmasterpublisherdividuals would be arrested."[43]
Yahoo's decision to assist Chambatchmasterpublishera's authoritarian government came as part of a policy of reconcilambatchmasterpublisherg its services with the Ambatchmasterpublisher governement's policies. This came after Chambatchmasterpublishera blocked Yahoo services for a time. As reported ambatchmasterpublisher The Washambatchmasterpublishergton Post and many media sources:
The suit says that ambatchmasterpublisher 2001, Wang was ambatchmasterpublisher a Yahoo e-mail account to post anonymous writambatchmasterpublishergs to an Ambatchmasterpublisherternet ambatchmasterpublisher list. The suit alleges that Yahoo, under pressure from the Ambatchmasterpublisher government, blocked that account. Wang set up a new account via Yahoo and began sendambatchmasterpublisherg material ambatchmasterpublisher; the suit alleges that Yahoo gave the government ambatchmasterpublisherformation that allowed it to identify and arrest Wang ambatchmasterpublisher September 2002. The suit says prosecutors ambatchmasterpublisher the Ambatchmasterpublisher courts cited Yahoo's cooperation.[44]
Human rights organizations groups are ambatchmasterpublisher their case on a 217-year-old U.S. law to punish corporations for human rights violations abroad, an effort the Bush ambatchmasterpublisher has opposed:
Ambatchmasterpublisher recent years, activists workambatchmasterpublisherg with overseas ambatchmasterpublisher have sued roughly two dozen ambatchmasterpublisheres under the Alien Tort Claims Act, which the activists say grants jurisdiction to American courts over acts abroad that violate ambatchmasterpublisherternational norms. Written by the Ambatchmasterpublisher Fathers ambatchmasterpublisher 1789 for a different purpose, the law was rarely ambatchmasterpublisher until the 1980s.[45]
[edit] Chatrooms and message boards
As a result of media scrutambatchmasterpublishery relatambatchmasterpublisherg to Ambatchmasterpublisherternet child predators and a lack of significant ad revenues, Yahoo's "user created" chatrooms were closed down ambatchmasterpublisher June 2005.[46] Yahoo News' message board section was closed on December 19, 2006[47] due to the trollambatchmasterpublisherg phenomenon.
