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Yahoo! Search
Type of site
Web search engine
Available inMultilingual (40)
OwnerYahoo Inc.
URLsearch.yahoo.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedMarch 2, 1995; 29 years ago (1995-03-02)
Current statusActive
Written inPHP[1]

Yahoo! Search is a search engine owned and operated by Yahoo!, using Microsoft Bing to power results.

Originally, "Yahoo! Search" referred to a Yahoo!-provided interface that sent queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of websites. The results were presented to the user under the Yahoo! brand. The actual web crawling and data housing was not done by Yahoo! itself – in 2001, the searchable index was powered by Inktomi and later by Google until 2004, when Yahoo! built its own crawler, becoming independent.

On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would henceforth power Yahoo! Search, putting an end to Yahoo!'s in-house crawler.[2] For four years between 2015 until the end of 2018, it was powered by Google,[3] before returning to Microsoft Bing again.

As of July 2018, Microsoft Sites handled 24.2 percent of all desktop search queries in the United States. During the same period of time, Oath (the then-owner of the Yahoo brand) had a search market share of 11.5 percent. Market leader Google generated 63.2 percent of all core search queries in the United States.[4]

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International presence

Yahoo! Search also provided their search interface in at least 38 international markets and a variety of available languages.[5] Yahoo! has a presence in Europe, Asia and across the Emerging Markets.

Languages

Yahoo Image Search Results Languages

Yahoo Image Search Results in 24 languages

Search results

Yahoo Search indexed and cached the common HTML page formats, as well as several of the more popular file-types, such as PDF, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, RSS/XML and plain text files. For some of these supported file-types, Yahoo! Search provided cached links on their search results allowing for viewing of these file-types in standard HTML. Using the Advanced Search interface or Preferences settings, Yahoo Search allowed the customization of search results and enabling of certain settings such as: SafeSearch, Language Selection, Number of results, Domain restrictions, etc.[6] For a Basic and starter guide to Yahoo Search, they also provided a Search Basics tutorial.[7] In 2005, Yahoo began to provide links to previous versions of pages archived on the Wayback Machine.[8] In the first week of May 2008, Yahoo launched a new search paradigm called Yahoo Glue.[9][10]

Yahoo! Search was criticized in 2020 for favoring websites owned by Yahoo!'s then-parent company, Verizon Media, in its search results.[11]

On June 20, 2007, Yahoo introduced a selection-based search feature called Yahoo Shortcuts. When activated this selection-based search feature enabled users to invoke search using only their mouse and receive search suggestions in floating windows while remaining on Yahoo properties such as Yahoo Mail. This feature was only active on Yahoo web pages or pages within the Yahoo Publisher Network. Yahoo Shortcuts required the content-owner to modify the underlying HTML of his or her webpage to call out the specific keywords to be enhanced. The technology for context-aware selection-based search on Yahoo pages was first developed by Reiner Kraft.[12]

SearchScan

SearchScan in action

On May 11, 2008, Yahoo introduced SearchScan. If enabled this add-on/feature enhanced Yahoo Search by automatically alerting users of viruses, spyware and spam websites.[13]

Search verticals

Yahoo Search provided the ability to search across numerous vertical properties outside just the Web at large. These included Images, Videos, Local, Shopping, Yahoo! Answers, Audio, Directory, Jobs, News, Mobile, Travel and various other services as listed on their About Yahoo Search page.

OneSearch

OneSearch

Yahoo introduced its Internet search system, called OneSearch,[14] for mobile phones on March 20, 2007. The results include news headlines, images from Flickr, business listings, local weather and links to other sites. Instead of showing only, for example, popular movies or some critical reviews, OneSearch lists local theaters that at the moment are playing the movie, along with user ratings and news headlines regarding the movie. A zip code or city name is required for OneSearch to start delivering local search results.[15]

The results of a Web search are listed on a single page and are prioritized into categories.[16]

As of 2012, Yahoo used Novarra's mobile content transcoding service for OneSearch.[17]

OneSearch

On January 14, 2020, Verizon announced the launch of its privacy-focused search engine OneSearch.[18][19][20]

OneSearch was criticized for favoring websites owned by Yahoo!'s then-parent company, Verizon Media, in its search results.[11]

"EFF Privacy Badger (a browser extension that detects cookies) discovered a tracker connected to Yahoo’s image search engine...Verizon owns Yahoo... OneSearch actually pulls all of its search results from Microsoft’s Bing search engine. "[21][22]

Verizon was fined $1.3 million for using super cookie trackers.[23]

www.onesearch.com is excluded from the Wayback Machine.[24][25]

  • onesearch.wesleyan.edu[26]
  • onesearch.library.utoronto.ca
  • onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au
  • onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au
  • onesearch.library.northeastern.edu
  • onesearch.lancaster-university.uk
  • onesearch.id
  • onesearch.cuny.edu
  • onesearch.library.nd.edu
  • onesearch.fitnyc.edu
  • onesearch.library.wwu.edu

See also

References

  1. ^ Roger Chapman. "Top 40 Website Programming Languages". roadchap.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
  2. ^ "Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal". BBC News. July 29, 2009. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  3. ^ "Ad Tech And Mobile in Focus in Microsoft And Yahoo's Renewed Search Deal". TechCrunch. April 16, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  4. ^ "Search engine market share in the United States 2018 – Statistic". Statista.
  5. ^ "Yahoo international presence". World.yahoo.com. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  6. ^ "Yahoo Advanced Web Search". search.yahoo.com.
  7. ^ "Help for Yahoo Search". help.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on October 2, 2007.
  8. ^ Yahoo Cache Now Offers Direct Links to Wayback Machine Archived May 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Search Engine Watch, September 18, 2005
  9. ^ Hopkins, Mark (November 13, 2008). "Yahoo! Glue Launches in America". Mashable.com. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  10. ^ "Yahoo tries Glue in India". The Guardian. May 9, 2008. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
  11. ^ a b "Yahoo!, AOL, OneSearch results biased in favor of parent company Verizon Media's websites". Ctrl blog. March 6, 2020.
  12. ^ "Yahoo shortcuts". Archived from the original on October 5, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
  13. ^ "Yahoo SearchScan information page". Tools.search.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  14. ^ "Yahoo! oneSearch". The Webby Awards. 2008. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  15. ^ Yi, Jeonghee; Maghoul, Farzin; Pedersen, Jan (April 21, 2008). "Deciphering mobile search patterns: a study of Yahoo! mobile search queries". pp. 257–266. doi:10.1145/1367497.1367533. S2CID 1377876. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  16. ^ "Yahoo Gets Ahead of Google in the Mobile Search Market". February 21, 2008. Archived from the original on December 24, 2007.
  17. ^ Gibbs, Colin (July 24, 2007). "Novarra to transcode for Yahoo!'s oneSearch". RCR Wireless US. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
  18. ^ "Verizon Media Launches Privacy-Focused Search Engine, OneSearch". Verizon Media. January 14, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  19. ^ Lyons, Kim (January 14, 2020). "Yahoo parent Verizon promises it won't track you with OneSearch, its new privacy-focused search engine". The Verge. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
  20. ^ "OneSearch vs. Yahoo Search Comparison". sourceforge.net. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  21. ^ Gelinas, James (January 18, 2020). "Does Verizon OneSearch actually protect your privacy?". Komando.com. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  22. ^ "Is Yahoo's New 'OneSearch' Engine Good for Privacy?". Lifehacker. January 16, 2020. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  23. ^ Lyons, Kim (January 14, 2020). "Verizon's new OneSearch search engine promises privacy, unlike nearly every other Verizon product". The Verge. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  24. ^ Unknown[permanent dead link‍]
  25. ^ Unknown[permanent dead link‍]
  26. ^ Hobbs, Kendall. "LibGuides: OneSearch: OneSearch Overview". libguides.wesleyan.edu. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
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