1. Yahoo! Finance provides information about finances. It is the most visited financial website of Americans in 2010. Yahoo! Finance reveals information about stock exchange rates, financial boards, stock valuation and finance management.

2. Yahoo! Group is the site for online discussion boards and forums. Yahoo! Group is created publicly or privately where groups or communities discuss a broad spectrum of topics like religion, business, animals, etc. As of September 2010, Yahoo! Group has 10 million groups.

3. Yahoo! Messenger is the instant messaging platform of Yahoo!. It is free of charge and is now associated to Yahoo! Mail. Moreover, it allows file transfer, video chatting and text messaging service. Yahoo! Messenger was formerly called Yahoo! Pager.

4. Flickr is a photo and video hosting website service of Yahoo!. Images and videos are freely accessed in Flickr without needing to register. Nevertheless, an account must be made when uploading files into the website.

5. Yahoo! Buzz is Yahoo’s social bookmarking site. It is the hub for publishing news, articles, stories and information.

6. Yahoo! Sports is the publication of articles and updates on American sports such as football, soccer, basketball, motor sports, swimming, horse racing, martial arts, cricket, hockey, skating and many more.

7. Yahoo! Music (Y! Music), as what its name suggests, is the source of music variety and services. Yahoo! Music includes internet radio, news, music videos and other matters related to music industry. Song compositions are categorized according to genre, artists or songs. Y! Music was previously called Launch. In 2007, Yahoo! Music was recognized as the leading online music site.

8. Yahoo! Movies, formerly known as Upcoming movies, is the home of movie collections, clips, information and releases. It also features red carpet photos and movie artists. In Yahoo! Movies, users are free to write and read critics and reviews.

9. Yahoo! News is the source of online news and current affairs. Yahoo! News is categorized according to top stories, business, entertainment, national news, international news, weather updates, science, health and local news. Yahoo! News reliable sources include Reuters and Fox News. Yahoo! News was ranked next to msnbc.com as world’s news website.

10. Yahoo! Answer is a Q and A site of Yahoo!. It is a community –driven platform where users are encouraged to post and answer questions of different topics. Yahoo! Answer is the second most popular and visited Q and A site (comscore.com).

Yahoo! (Y!) is an American internet corporation founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994 in California, United States. It is one of the most well-known and largest websites in the world. Yahoo is a multi-lingual interface with more than 20 languages in its directory.

Yahoo is an Acronym
Yahoo! Inc. is branded for its different applications and services such as search engine, mailing, news, directory, mapping, social services, web portal, advertising and others. Yahoo! itself has claimed that the company draws over 500, 000,000 users every month. The word “Yahoo” is the shortened form of the phrase “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.” The term was derived from Gulliver’s Travel tale which pertains to people who are described as “rude, unsophisticated, and uncouth.” David’s girlfriend also used to call him with such term.

When Electrical Engineering Students Become Founders
Jerry and David are Electrical Engineering seniors in Stanford University. They have an overwhelming interest in Internet, so they develop their own website and called it as “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” The said creation turns viral across university and hundreds of people are accessing their site, www.yahoo.com.

In the first day launched of Yahoo, Jerry and David celebrated their first one-million hit. The founders met the Silicon Valley venture capitalists to make contracts and have dealt $2 million investment to fund Yahoo!.

Yahoo! Applications and Services
Yahoo! as a web portal feeds the public with the latest news and information. End-users can also enjoy the services of chat and emails through Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Mail, respectively. Social networking applications generated by Yahoo! Inc. include Yahoo! Buzz, Flickr, My Web, Yahoo! Personals and Delicious. However, Yahoo! 360 and Yahoo! Buzz were no longer in operation.

Other services of Yahoo! include Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Sports, Shine (women’s site), Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Finance, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Mobile, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Real Estate, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Autos, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Auctions, Yahoo! Domains, Yahoo! Web Hosting, Yahoo! Store, Yahoo! Business Email, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, Yahoo! Next, Yahoo! Boss, Yahoo! Koprol (Indonesia), Y! Connect, Yahoo! Tech and Yahoo! Kids.

It must be mentioned that Yahoo! gets revenues from the advertisement and commercials of the above-mentioned services.