Yahoo!

Yahoo - one of the oldest search engines of the internet that uses enormous success with the USA and Canada, and similarly in a number of countries of Europe.

Yahoo was founded in 1994 and registered in city New York, as independent the internet enterprise.

Yahoo has the oldest searching catalogue in the Internet among all known searching systems of countries of America, where editors by hand distribute web-sites on categories. 

However, in October, 2002 Yahoo produced a large change, passing to the use of searching robot for the main results of search. 

To February, 2004 Yahoo used the database of Google. To date Yahoo uses the own technology of search. 

In addition to the excellent results of search on the main page of Yahoo an user can use located higher than searching line of book-mark, to search a picture, results from "YPS" or to use the excellent searching system Yahoo for being of commodities. It is similarly possible to visit the main page of Yahoo Search, where more specialized searching options are offered.

The catalogue of Yahoo continues to function. It is here possible to notice references to the thematic categories of catalogue in the underbody of page of results of search. In transition on references an user gets the list of web-sites that is added by the editors of Yahoo.

In addition, an user can search directly in the catalogue of Yahoo. For this purpose instead of main page of Yahoo the address of page is entered: dir.yahoo.com. Then an user will get references to the thematic categories of catalogue ("Related Directory Categories"), and results from a catalogue ("Directory Results"), that are most relevant to the query by web-sites from all categories of catalogue of Yahoo.

To be plugged in the commercial categories of catalogue of Yahoo, a web-site must pass requiring payment registration and get the consent of editors. Noncommercial web-sites are accepted in the catalogue of Yahoo free of charge. The program of acceptance of web-sites of Yahoo also offers the requiring payment plugging in the page of results of search of the searching system Yahoo. 

Yahoo promises that it will not influence on ranging. The program of search also free of charge gives out the web-sites of noncommercial organizations.

As well as Google, Yahoo offers the requiring payment placing of references to the web-site. They are for sale through Overture. Yahoo purchased Overture Services in October, 2003.

Overture to the end of 2001 GoTo was named. In March, 2003 Overture bought AllTheWeb, and in April of the same year - AltaVista. Now due to acquisition of Overture Yahoo is a proprietor both AllTheWeb and AltaVista.

Technology of AltaVista and AllTheWeb was incorporated with the searching system Inktomi, to create a present searching robot Yahoo. As is generally known, Yahoo bought Inktomi in March, 2003. Therefore results of search in Yahoo will be analogical with the results got in AltaVista and AllTheWeb.

Besides the squeak of Yahoo it is a social network, both MTA and catalogue of different information useful to the user yet and.

Lately Yahoo was adapted to the languages and the internet to space of row of countries of Asia and Eastern Europe, that allows to him it notedly to rise in rating of users.