Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc.
Type Public (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Founded Flag of United States Santa Clara, California
(March 2, 1995)
Headquarters 701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, California, USA
Key people Jerry Yang, CEO, Chief Yahoo! and Co-founder
Susan Decker, President
Semel, Chairman
David Filo, Chief Yahoo! and Co-founder
Industry Internet, computer software
Products (See list of Yahoo! products)
Revenue $1.67 Billion USD (Q1 2007)[1]
Operating income $169 Million USD (Q1 2007)[2]
Employees 11,700 (Q1 2007)
Slogan "Do you Yahoo!?"
Website yahoo.com
Yahoo! Incorporated (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation and
global internet services company. It operates an internet portal and
provides a full range of products and services including a search engine,
the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, posting, etc. It was founded by
Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January
of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California.
According to web traffic analysis companies (including Alexa Internet and
Netcraft), Yahoo! has been the most visited website on the Internet, with
more than 412 million unique users. The global network of Yahoo! websites
received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005,
making it one of the most visited U.S. websites.
It primarily competes against Google, MSN and AOL among others.
History and growth
Early history (1994-1996)
In 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 in a
hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
In 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 definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude,
unsophisticated, uncouth." The name can also be a backronym for "Yet Another
Hierarchical Officious Oracle".[3] Its URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.[4]
By the end of 1994, Yahoo had already received one million hits. Yang and
Filo realized their website had massive business potential, and on 2 March
1995, Yahoo was incorporated.[5] On 12 April 1996, Yahoo had its initial
public offering, raising $33.8 million dollars, by selling 2.6 million
shares at $13 each.
"Yahoo" had already been trademarked for barbecue sauce, knives (by EBSCO
Industries) and human propelled watercraft (by Old Town Canoe Co.).
Therefore, in order to get the trademark, Yang and Filo added the
exclamation mark to the name.[6] However, the exclamation mark is often
omitted when referring to Yahoo.
Growth (1997-1999)
Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo diversified into a Web
portal. In the late 1990s, Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, Excite and other Web portals
were growing rapidly. Web portal providers rushed to acquire companies to
expand their range of services, in the hope of increasing the time a user
stays at the portal.
On 8 March 1997, Yahoo acquired online communications company Four11.
Four11's webmail service, Rocketmail, became Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo also
acquired ClassicGames.com and turned it into Yahoo! Games. Yahoo then
acquired direct marketing company Yoyodyne Entertainment, Inc. on 12 October
1998.[7] On 28 January 1999, Yahoo acquired web hosting 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 acquiring companies, Yahoo often changed the relevant terms of service.
For example, they claimed intellectual 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 existing
services.
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 in Yahoo Japan
became the first stocks in Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000,
reaching a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that time).[8]
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).[9][10] On
the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was
blamed on hackers rather than on an internal glitch, unlike a fault with
eBay earlier that year.
During the dot-com boom, the cable news station CNBC also reported that
Yahoo and eBay were discussing a 50/50 merger.[11] Although the merger never
materialized the two companies decided to form a marketing/advertising
alliance six years later in 2006.[12]
On 26 June 2000, Yahoo and Google signed an agreement which retained Google
as the default world-wide-web search engine for yahoo.com following a beta
trial in 1999.[13]
Post dot-com bubble (2002-2006)
Yahoo was one of the few surviving large Internet 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 Internet 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.[14] In July 2003,
BT Openworld announced an alliance with Yahoo[15] On 23 August 2005, Yahoo
and Verizon launched an integrated DSL service.[16]
In late 2002, Yahoo began to bolster its search services by acquiring other
search engines. In December 2002, Yahoo acquired Inktomi, and in July 2003,
it acquired Overture Services, Inc. and its subsidiaries AltaVista and
AlltheWeb. On February 18, 2004, Yahoo dropped Google-powered results and
returned to using its own technology to provide search results.
Google then released Gmail, its webmail service offering 1 GB of storage, on
1 April 2004. Yahoo responded by upgrading the storage of all free Yahoo
Mail accounts from 4 MB to 100 MB, and all Yahoo Mail Plus accounts to 2
GB.In 2007, Yahoo took out the storage meters and made the storage limit
unlimited. On 9 July 2004, Yahoo acquired e-mail provider Oddpost to add an
Ajax interface to Yahoo! Mail Beta. Google also released Google Talk, a
Voice over IP and instant messaging service, on 24 August 2005. On 13
October 2005, Yahoo and Microsoft announced that Yahoo! Messenger and MSN
Messenger would become interoperable.
Yahoo continued acquiring 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 sharing service
Flickr.[17] On 29 March 2005, the company launched its blogging and social
networking service Yahoo! 360°.[18] In June 2005, Yahoo acquired blo.gs, a
service based on RSS feed aggregation. Yahoo then bought online social event
calendar Upcoming.org on 4 October 2005. Yahoo acquired social bookmark site
del.icio.us on 9 December 2005 and then playlist sharing community webjay on
9 January 2006.
The future (2007- )
Yahoo! Next is an incubation ground for future Yahoo technologies currently
in their beta testing phase. It contains forums for Yahoo users to give
feedback to assist in the development of these future Yahoo technologies.
Products and services
Yahoo provides a wide array of internet services that cater to most online
activities. It operates the web portal http://www.yahoo.com which provides
contents including the latest news, Yahoo Finance and gives users quick
access to other Yahoo services like Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo Maps, Yahoo! Groups
and Yahoo! Messenger.
Search
Yahoo! Search is the second largest search engine on the internet, Yahoo
also provides vertical search services such as Yahoo! Image, Yahoo! Video,
Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Shopping Search.
Communication
Yahoo provides internet communication services such as Yahoo! Mail and
Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo Mail is the largest e-mail service in the world with
almost half the market share.[19] In March, 2007, Yahoo announced that their
e-mail service will offer unlimited storage beginning May 2007, and they
have started offering the unlimited storages, but this will take few months
to cover all subscribers to allow smooth transition. .[20]
Yahoo also offers social networking services and user-generated content in
products such as My Web, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! 360°, and Flickr.
Content
Yahoo partners with hundreds of premier content providers in products such
as Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance, 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 information into a single page.
Yahoo has developed partnerships with different broadband providers such as
AT&T(via BellSouth & SBC), Verizon Communications, Rogers Communications and
British Telecom, offering a range of free and premium Yahoo content and
services to subscribers.
Mobile
Yahoo! Mobile includes services for on-the-go messaging, such as email,
instant messaging, and moblogging; information, such as search and alerts;
and fun and games, including ringtones, mobile games, and Yahoo Photos for
camera phones.
OneSearch
Yahoo introduced its Internet search system, called oneSearch, developed for
mobile phones on March 20, 2007. The company's officials stated that in
distinction from ordinary Web search Yahoo's new service presents a list of
actual information, which may include: news headlines, images from Yahoo's
Flickr photos site, 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 a
certain movie, user ratings and news headlines regarding the movie. A zip
code or city name is required for Yahoo oneSearch to start delivering local
search results. The results of a Web search are listed on a single page and
are prioritized into categories. The list of results is based on
calculations that Yahoo computers make on certain information the user is
trying to make.[21]
Commerce
Yahoo offers commerce services such as Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo Autos, Yahoo
Real Estate and Yahoo Travel, which enables users to gather relevant
information and make commercial transactions and purchases online.
Small Business
Yahoo provides services such as Yahoo Domains, Yahoo Web Hosting, Yahoo
Merchant Solutions, Yahoo Business Email, and Yahoo Store to small business
owners and professionals allowing them to build their own online stores
using Yahoo's tools.
Yahoo also offers HotJobs to help recruiters find the talent they seek.
Advertising
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 in the Yahoo network.
Yahoo! Publisher Network is an advertising tool for online publishers to
place advertisements relevant to their content to monetize their
websites.[22]
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. The system
takes bids, ad quality, click-through rates and other factors into
consideration in determining 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 increase monetization -- to earn
more from the ads it shows [23]
Revenue model
Yahoo's revenue comes mainly from online advertising[24]. The largest
segment of it comes from search advertising, 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 advertising
system "Panama" Yahoo aims to increase revenue generated from search.[25]
Other forms of advertising which bring in revenue for Yahoo include display
and contextual advertising.
Important events
* January 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create "Jerry's Guide to the World
Wide Web" while studying at Stanford University.
* April 1994: "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" is renamed "Yahoo"
* March 1995: Yahoo is incorporated.
* 1995: Ziff Davis Inc. launches the magazine Yahoo! Internet Life,
initially as ZD Internet Life. The magazine was meant to accompany and
complement the web site.
* April 12, 1996: Yahoo has Initial public offering, closing at $33.00, up
270% from the IPO price, after peaking 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 marketing company Yoyodyne
Entertainment, Inc.[26]
* 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 intra-day high of
$500.13 (pre-split price).
* January 19, 2000: At the height of the Dot-com tech bubble, shares in
Yahoo Japan became the first stocks in Japanese history to trade at over
¥100,000,000, reaching a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that
time).[27]
* 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).[28][29] On
the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was
blamed on hackers rather than on an internal 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 engine, and to stop to act as an
intermediary 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 finally abandoned in 2003. Yahoo eventually quit
voluntarily trading on Nazi and Ku Klux Klan bibelots.[30][31]
* June 28, 2000: Yahoo acquires eGroups.
* March 7, 2001: Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle announces he will step down and remain
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 intra-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 Inc. starts acquisition of Inktomi Web search engine
* July, 2003: BT Openworld announces an alliance with Yahoo -- Press Release
* July 2003, Yahoo acquires Overture Services, Inc.
* January 19, 2004: Yahoo Inc. announces the formation of Yahoo Research
Labs, a research organization focusing on the invention of new technologies
and solutions for Yahoo. Yahoo's Head and Principal Scientist, Dr. Gary
William Flake, leads the new organization. Dr. Flake has since left the
company and now works at Microsoft.
* February 19, 2004: Yahoo drops Google-powered results, launching its own
web-crawling algorithm and using its own site index after it had used
Google's results for a long time.
* March 2004: Yahoo launches its own search engine technology.
* March 1, 2004: Yahoo announces (as cited in the New York Times article
listed in the "References" section) that it will practice paid inclusion for
its search service. However, it also announced it would continue to rely
mainly on a free web crawl for most of its search engine content.
* March 25, 2004: Yahoo acquires the European shopping search engine Kelkoo.
* July 9, 2004 Yahoo acquires email provider Oddpost.[32]
* November 4, 2004: Yahoo acquires game platform provider Stadeon.
* December 15, 2004: Yahoo launches beta version of its video search engine.
* February 9, 2005 Yahoo Launch is changed to Yahoo Music, which still
provides free music.
* February 15, 2005 Yahoo establishes its European Headquarters in Dublin,
Ireland with the creation of 400 new jobs.[33]
* February 28, 2005 Yahoo launches a developer network giving 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 Baskin Robbins to its
users.
* March 20, 2005 Yahoo acquires photo sharing service Flickr.
* March 29, 2005 Yahoo launch blogging and social networking service Yahoo!
360°
* April 7, 2005 Wikimedia Foundation announces Yahoo support.[34]
* 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 engine Konfabulator
* August 11, 2005 Yahoo acquires 40% of Alibaba.com for $1 billion US, and
Alibaba will take over operation of Yahoo China.[35]
* August 23, 2005: Verizon and Yahoo Launch Integrated DSL Service -- [36]
* September 7, 2005. Yahoo supplies information to People's Republic of
China which then jails reporter Shi Tao, age 37, for 10 years. Yahoo states
that they were following Chinese law.[37]
* October 4, 2005 Yahoo purchases online social event calendar Upcoming.org.[38]
* 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" link 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 online video editing site Jumpcut.
* September 29 to September 30, 2006 Yahoo hosts an Open Hack Day (external
site), featuring a musical performance by Beck
* December 5, 2006 Yahoo announces a significant re-organization, including
the departure of Dan Rosensweig (COO), Lloyd Braun and John Marcom. Sue
Decker is promoted from CFO, and other business unit shifts are made.
* January 8, 2007 Yahoo acquires MyBlogLog.[39]
* February 5, 2007 Yahoo launches a new search advertising system
Panama.[40]
* March 1, 2007 Localised New Zealand internet portal, Yahoo!Xtra, launches.
Official Site
* April 30, 2007 Yahoo! announces acquisition of Right Media.
* June 16, 2007 Yahoo! officially retires the Yahoo! Auctions
service.[auctions.yahoo.com]
* June 18, 2007 Yahoo! co-founder, Jerry Yang, replaces Terry Semel as CEO.[41]
* June 20, 2007 Yahoo! agrees to acquire Rivals.com. [42]
Criticism and controversy
Yahoo paid inclusion controversy
In March 2004, Yahoo launched a paid inclusion program whereby commercial
websites are guaranteed listings on the Yahoo search engine 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 listings being indistinguishable from other search results). As
of Oct 2006, Paid Inclusion doesn't guarantee any commercial listing, it
only helps the paid inclusion customers, by crawling their site more often
and by providing some statistics on the searches that led to the page and
some additional smart links (provided by customers as feeds) below the
actual url.
Yahoo has also been criticized for funding spyware and adware — advertising
from Yahoo's clients often appears on-screen in pop-ups generated from
adware that a user may have installed on their computer without realizing it
by accepting online offers to download software to fix computer clocks or
improve computer security, add browser enhancements, etc. Similarly, Yahoo
has received adverse comment for bundling their Yahoo toolbar with other
software (Macromedia Flash 8 is an example) with installation being the
default setting. The toolbar itself has been noted as taking up a lot of
screen-space when installed. Also, Windows users will find themselves unable
to uninstall the toolbar by normal means on Internet Explorer.
Preferable to many web users would be Yahoo's practice of carrying
promotions disguised as news as evidenced by its support for the computer
game "Grand Theft Auto"; the news story begins with:
"As you watch the new Grand Theft Auto trailer depicting life on the streets
in Liberty City,
be sure to watch for these cool additions":"
Work in China
Yahoo, along with Google China, Microsoft, Cisco, AOL, Skype, Nortel and
others, has cooperated with the Chinese government in implementing a system
of internet censorship in mainland China.
Unlike Google or Microsoft, which keep confidential records of its users
outside China, Yahoo! stated that the company will not protect the privacy
and confidentiality of its Chinese customers from the authorities.[43]
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 contributing to the authorities'
censorship efforts, the government could be forced to change.
Chinese dissident imprisonment controversy
In April 2005, Shi Tao, a journalist working for a Chinese newspaper, was
sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Changsha Intermediate People's Court
of Hunan Province, China (First trial case no 29), for "providing 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 Incident.[44]
The verdict stated Yahoo Holdings (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. In April 2006, Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong) is under
investigation by Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data.
Criticism of Yahoo intensified when the court document stated the company
aided Chinese authorities in the case of dissident Li Zhi. In December 2003
Li Zhi was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for "inciting subversion".
In recent months, Yahoo has also followed the directive of United States
government officials in turning over information which the United States
deems as key for continuing its global war on terror. Yahoo contends it must
respect the laws of governments in jurisdictions where it is operating.
On 2 June 2006, the union representing journalists in the UK and Ireland
(NUJ) called on its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo Inc. products and
services to protest the Internet company's reported actions in China.[45]
Sued in US court for outing Chinese dissident
Wang Xiaoning is a Chinese dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by
authorities of the People's Republic of China for publishing controversial
material online.
In 2000 and 2001, Wang, who was an engineer by profession, posted electronic
journals in a Yahoo group calling for democratic reform and an end to
single-party rule. He was arrested in September 2002 after Yahoo assisted
Chinese authorities by providing information. In September 2003, Wang was
convicted of charges of "incitement to subvert state power" and sentenced to
ten years in prison.[46]
On April 18, 2007, Xiaoning's wife Yu Ling sued Yahoo under human rights
laws in federal court in San Francisco, California, United States.[47] Wang
Xiaoning is named as a plaintiff in 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 China
with identification information that those individuals would be
arrested."[48]
Yahoo's decision to assist China's authoritarian government came as part of
a policy of reconciling its services with the Chinese governement's
policies. This came after China blocked Yahoo services for a time. As
reported in The Washington Post and many media sources:
The suit says that in 2001, Wang was using a Yahoo e-mail account to post
anonymous writings to an Internet mailing list. The suit alleges that Yahoo,
under pressure from the Chinese government, blocked that account. Wang set
up a new account via Yahoo and began sending material again; the suit
alleges that Yahoo gave the government information that allowed it to
identify and arrest Wang in September 2002. The suit says prosecutors in the
Chinese courts cited Yahoo's cooperation.[49]
Human rights organizations groups are basing their case on a 217-year-old
U.S. law to punish corporations for human rights violations abroad, an
effort the Bush administration has opposed:
In recent years, activists working with overseas plaintiffs have sued
roughly two dozen businesses under the Alien Tort Claims Act, which the
activists say grants jurisdiction to American courts over acts abroad that
violate international norms. Written by the Founding Fathers in 1789 for a
different purpose, the law was rarely invoked until the 1980s.[50]
Chatrooms and message boards
As a result of media scrutiny relating to Internet child predators and a
lack of significant ad revenues, Yahoo's "user created" chatrooms were
closed down in June 2005.[51] Yahoo News' message board section was closed
on December 19, 2006[52] due to the trolling phenomenon.
Image search
On May 25, 2006, Yahoo's image search was criticized for bringing up
sexually explicit images even when SafeSearch was on. This was discovered by
a teacher who was intending to use the service with a class to search for
"www". Yahoo's response to this was, "Yahoo is aware of this issue and is
working to resolve it as quickly as possible".[53]
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2. ^ http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=YHOO
3. ^ http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history_search_dictionary.html
4. ^ http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history_search_dictionary.html
5. ^ Inventing Yahoo!
6. ^ http://blog.cre8asite.net/bwelford/archives/date/2004/04/
7. ^ http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,15555,00_search_dictionary.html
8. ^ http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/print.php/289851
9. ^ http://www.dennismoran.org/media/stacks.msnbc.com/news/376219_search_dictionary.html
10. ^ http://news.com.com/2100-1023-236621_search_dictionary.html?legacy=cnet
11. ^ http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34967,00_search_dictionary.html
12. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060525/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_ebay
13. ^ http://www.google.com/googlefriends/alert2_2000_search_dictionary.html
14. ^ Internet Leaders SBC and Yahoo! Launch National Co-Branded Dial
Service
15. ^ BT CONTINUES TO DELIVER ON BROADBAND TARGETS
16. ^ http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=92803
17. ^ http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/03/yahoo_actually__search_dictionary.html
18. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21_360%C2%BA
19. ^ Yahoo Tops Google In Mail, News, Finance
20. ^ http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/03/27/yahoo-mail-goes-to-infinity-and-beyond/
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23. ^ http://searchengineland.com/070205-090623.php
24. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070625/tc_cmp/200000272
25. ^ A Long-Delayed Ad System Has Yahoo Crossing Its Fingers
26. ^ http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,15555,00_search_dictionary.html Wired.com
27. ^ http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/print.php/289851 Internetnews
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