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Yahoo! is an Internet search and web portal company founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yahoo! was one of the premier search engines of the 1990s, and though Google dominated the search market in the subsequent decade, Yahoo! still accounted for roughly 20% of all searches by June, 2008. As of October, 2007, Yahoo! received 3.4 billion page views per day.

In addition to its search features, Yahoo! features multiple portal services, including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Sports, and and Yahoo! Messenger. Yahoo! Buzz monitors the most popular and fastest-rising searches on Yahoo! each day. The company makes the vast majority of its revenue off its marketing and advertising services. According to Yahoo!'s 2008 annual report, the company made $7.2 billion dollars in 2007.

Despite its popularity, Yahoo! underwent a crisis in the second half of the 2000s in the wake of competition from sites like Google. In 2007, a proposed merger with Microsoft failed after extensive negotiations and an offer of $44.6 billion in cash and stock from Microsoft.

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• in Blogging
  Is Twitter’s Location Tool the Next Big Draw in Internet Advertising?
  Google Buzz entry in the market place has Yahoo, Twitter and Facebook responding almost immediately as they vie for the $120 billion digital adspend market
  by ecothrust / on Mar 16, 2010
• in Business
  Digital Advertising Set to Outsell Print
  The digital advertising market is set to overtake the print media, with $120 billion at stake
  by ecothrust / on Mar 10, 2010
• in Technology
  Yahoo and Twitter Enter in Content Sharing Partnership
  The partnership with the popular micro-blogging service enables Yahoo to see real-time Twitter feeds integrated across their network.
  by aniruddh / on Feb 25, 2010

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