List of Yahoo!-owned Sites and Services - Yahoo! Branded

Yahoo! Branded

• Yahoo! Advertising

A combination of advertising services owned by Yahoo!.

• Yahoo! Answers

Yahoo! Answers is a service that allows users to ask and answer questions other users post. It competes with Ask MetaFilter. Yahoo! Answers uses a points system whereby points are awarded for asking and answering questions, and deducted for deleting a question or answer, or getting reported.

• Yahoo! Avatars

Yahoo! Avatars allows users to create personalized character images, also known as avatars, which are displayed on Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Answers.

• Yahoo! Autos
• Yahoo! Axis
• Yahoo! Bookmarks

Yahoo! Bookmarks is a private bookmarking service. All Users from Yahoo MyWeb were transferred to this service.

• Yahoo! Developer Network

Yahoo! Developer Network offers resources for software developers which use Yahoo! technologies and Web services.

• Yahoo! Directory

Yahoo! was first formed as a web directory of web sites, organized into a hierarchy of categories and subcategories, which became the Yahoo! Directory. Once a human-compiled directory, Yahoo! Directory now offers two methods of inclusion: Standard, which is free and only available for non-commercial categories, and Express, which charges over US$300 for a quick inclusion in the directory.

• Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo! Finance offers financial information, including stock quotes and stock exchange rates.

• Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games allows users to play games, such as chess, billiards, checkers and backgammon, against each other. Users can join one of various rooms and find players in these rooms to play with. Most of the games are Java applets, although some require the user to download the game, and some games are single-player. Yahoo! acquired a one person effort called ClassicGames.com in 1997, which became Yahoo! Games.

• Yahoo! Green

Yahoo! Green is a website that gathers news, ideas, and discussion about ways to promote an environmentally conscious lifestyle. It includes numerous ideas on conserving natural resources and limiting consumption and waste. One of the main subheadings is a news board called "Climate Change News." This gathers many news items, from around the World, which are related to climate change on a variety of levels. It constitutes a significant appearance of climate change news as a separate news category at a major website. The site also links to Yahoo! Answers and displays related questions and answers from Yahoo users. This constitutes just one way of enabling users to add content.

• Yahoo! Groups

Yahoo! Groups is a free groups and mailing list service which competes with Google Groups. It was formed when Yahoo! acquired eGroups in August 2000. Groups are sorted in categories similar to the Yahoo! Directory. Yahoo! Groups also offers other features such as a photographic album, file storage and a calendar.

• Yahoo! Kids

Yahoo! Kids is a children's version of the Yahoo! portal. It also offers some online safety tips.

• Yahoo! Koprol

Koprol, since 25 May 2010 called Yahoo! Koprol, is an Indonesian social networking service, allowing users to connect based on location. Mobile users can use the site as a positioning service, without the need for a GPS receiver. Once logged in, users can see other members who were in the same location.

• Yahoo! Local

Find local businesses and services and view the results on a map. Refine and sort results by distance, topic, or other factors. Read ratings and reviews. Uses hCalendar and hCard microformats, so that event and contact details can be downloaded directly into calendar and address-book applications.

• Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo! acquired Four11 on 8 October 1997, and its webmail service Rocketmail became Yahoo! Mail. Since Google released Gmail on 1 April 2004, Yahoo! Mail has made several improvements to keep ahead of the competition, which also includes MSN Hotmail and AOL Mail. Yahoo! Mail is the only web-based email service that offers unlimited storage for all users. On 9 July 2004, Yahoo! acquired an e-mail provider named Oddpost and used its technology to create Yahoo! Mail Beta, which uses Ajax to mimic the look and feel of an e-mail client. On 19 June 2008, Yahoo! Mail introduced its 2 new email domains: ymail.com and rocketmail.com ("@ymail.com" and "@rocketmail.com" at http://mail.yahoo.com).

• Yahoo! Maps

Yahoo! Maps offers driving directions and traffic.

• Yahoo! Meme

Yahoo! Meme is a beta social service, similar to the popular social networking site Twitter.

• Yahoo! Messenger

Yahoo! Messenger is an instant messaging service first released on 21 July 1999, which competes with AOL Instant Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ and QQ. It offers several unique features, such as IMvironments, custom status messages, and custom avatars. On 13 October 2005, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger (now Windows Live Messenger) would become interoperable.

• Yahoo! Mobile

Yahoo! Mobile is a mobile website used predominantly in the UK. It offers mobile downloads such as ringtones.

• Yahoo! Movies

Yahoo! Movies offers showtimes, movie trailers, movie information, gossip, and others.

• Yahoo! Music

Yahoo! Music offers music videos and internet radio (LAUNCHcast), a for-fee service known as Yahoo! Music Unlimited and the Yahoo! Music Engine- which has been sold to Rhapsody on Oct. 31st, 2008.

• Yahoo! News news updates and top stories at Yahoo! News, including world, national, business, entertainment, sports, weather, technology, and weird news.
• Yahoo! OMG

OMG is a Yahoo! Entertainment online tabloid with most content provided by Access Hollywood and X17.

• Yahoo! Originals

Yahoo! Originals offers original video content.

• Yahoo! Parental Controls

Yahoo! Parental Controls are special controls given by parents for their children, closely associated with Yahoo! Kids.

• 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

Yahoo Pipes is a free RSS mashup visual editor and hosting service.

• Yahoo! Publisher Network

Yahoo! Publisher Network is an advertising program, which is currently in beta and only accepts United States publishers.

• Yahoo! Real Estate

Yahoo! Real Estate offers real estate-related information and allows users to find rentals, mew houses, real estate agents, mortgages and more.

• Yahoo! Search

Yahoo! Search is a search engine which competes with MSN Search (now Bing) and market leader Google. Yahoo! relied on Google results from 26 June 2000 to 18 February 2004, but returned to using its own technology after acquiring Inktomi and Overture (which owned AlltheWeb and AltaVista). Yahoo! Search uses a crawler named Yahoo! Slurp.

• Yahoo! Search Marketing

Yahoo! Search Marketing provides pay per click inclusion of links in search engine result lists, and also delivers targeted ads. The service was previously branded as Overture Services after Yahoo! acquired Overture in 2003.

• Yahoo! Shopping

Yahoo! Shopping is a price comparison service, that allows users to search for products and compare prices of various online stores.

• Yahoo! Small Business

Yahoo! Small Business offers web hosting, domain names and e-commerce services for small businesses.

• Yahoo! Smush.it

Yahoo! Smush.it optimizes digital images by removing unnecessary bytes and reducing their file size.

• Yahoo! Sports

Yahoo! Sports offers sports news, including scores, statistics, and fixtures. It includes a "fantasy team" game.

• Yahoo! Thế giới sao

Yahoo! Thế giới sao offers hottest news from celebrities around the world. It is totally different from Yahoo! News nor Yahoo! Tin tức (a vietnamese version of Yahoo! News)

• Yahoo! Travel

Yahoo! Travel offers travel guides, booking and reservation services.

• Yahoo! TV

Yahoo! TV offers scheduled recordings on Tivo box remotely.

• Yahoo! Screen

Yahoo! Video is a video sharing site.

• Yahoo! Voice

Yahoo! Voice was formerly known as Dialpad. It is a Voice over IP PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service.

• Yahoo! Voices

Associated Content (AC) was an online publisher and distributor of original content. On May 19, 2010, Yahoo announced that it would purchase Associated Content for slightly more than $100 million. It was renamed Yahoo! Voices.

• Yahoo! Web Analytics

IndexTools was acquired by Yahoo! and re-branded as 'Yahoo! Web Analytics'.

• Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam

Social networking services as the replacement for Yahoo! 360°. Popular in Vietnam.