Yahoo Services
Yahoo! is a popular web dominator, taking a huge portion of traffic and revenue every day. So far Yahoo! (always put the ! after the Yahoo) has provided many services, but unfortunately many of them have been forced to close down. The services still in effect are still dominating. Below is a list of services provided by this web giant.
Yahoo! Advertising
Advertising services provided by Yahoo! Yahoo! Answers The competitor for the famous Ask! service. A very reliable media of asking and ansering questions. Yahoo! Avatars Allows the creation of virtual 3D/2D charectarizations of oneself (mainly), used in order to be displayed in other Yahoo! services. Yahoo! Autos The place to buy and sell cars, used or new. It is the largest and still growing network in car dealings. Yahoo! Bookmarks The former of MyWeb, it is a bookmarking service integrated with the Yahoo! corporation. Yahoo! Developer Network Like Google's Developer Central, Yahoo developer network provides tools for software development and webmaster integration. Yahoo! Directory Yahoo! directory originally was human manupilated and then ultimately it started commercial and express features. It is a large web directory. Yahoo! Real Estate A real-estate and renting/mortgaging service, it provides access to a huge network of houses to choose from. Yahoo! Search Powered by the crawler Yahoo Slurp, it started using its own search service from 2004. Yahoo search is not as popular as google, but is in the same rank as bing. Yahoo! Search Marketing Provides search engine inclusion in web search results of advertisement. Yahoo search marketing is a preety good service for advertisers. Yahoo! Shopping A leading price comparision service that integrates a lot of companies. |
Yahoo! Finance
Provides e-commerce related info as well as stock exchange updates Yahoo! Games A large online games playing community that offers games such as chess, pool, snooker, blackgammon, darts and many more. It began in 1997. Yahoo! Groups Provides free webspace, image storage for groups, similiar to the yahoo directories. it serves to compete with google groups. Yahoo! Kids A kids version of Yahoo, which is differt as google does not provide this service. Yahoo! Koprol An Indonesian social networking and locationing service. Yahoo! Local A geo-based service providing features such as calender events, business and other relevent features. Yahoo! Mail The web leading mail service that is still the most popular, ahead of gmail and hotmail. it has two new domains, ymail and rocket mail. This service started on 1997. Yahoo! Video A video streaming site from Yahoo. Not doing very well. Yahoo! Voice A VOIP service that provides international calling for a price. Although not very popular, it is growing fast. Yahoo! Web Analytics A service comparable to Google analytics, it is not very known amoung the webmasters. Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam A service offering Yahoo 360 for Vietnam. Yahoo! Small Business This service provides e-commerce services for the small networks out there. |
Yahoo! Maps
A map alternative of Google Maps, providing free map functions such as driving directions. Yahoo! Meme A Twitter alternative, which is basically a beta social networking service. Yahoo! Messenger The leading IM service client, it offers special features not available from Gtalk, MSN messenger. It is the leader in IM clients. Yahoo! Mobile A mobile site version of Yahoo. Provides various services such as downloads, location services. Yahoo! Movies A portal to the latest info about movies and trailers. Very informative, comparable to IDMB. Yahoo! Music A music protocol services known as LaunchCast, it was sold to Rhapshody. Yahoo! Parental Controls A service that provides webpage scrutiny for children. Yahoo! Personals Yahoo! Personals is an online dating service with both free and paid versions. However, the free service is limited, as only paying users can contact users they meet through Yahoo! Personals and exchange contact information. Yahoo! Pipes A RSS manager that provides syndication of updates to websites. Yahoo! Publisher Network A USA only publisher network that is in beta, and almost closing down. Yahoo! Sports A sports update service providing scores, matchups and updates. Also has the fantasy game syndicate. Yahoo! Smush.it A image optimizing service by Yahoo, it reducing the size of images by removing bytes. |