Second most popular search engine on the planet. Yahoo is still one of the most visited Web properties on the Internet. One of the first and popular web directories, Yahoo continues to be one of the most visited sites on the Internet. Yahoo is a distant second in search engine market share behind Google.

Yahoo offers a number of online properties and services to users; and various tools and marketing solutions to businesses. These products include such things as marketplace products that comprise Yahoo! Shopping, Kelkoo, and Yahoo! Auctions for shopping; Yahoo! Real Estate for real estate information; Yahoo! Travel, an online travel research and booking site and Yahoo! FareChase, a travel search engine; Yahoo! Autos to price and compare cars online; and Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Personals Premier for online dating.

According to Yahoo's official Media Relations History lesson, Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet.

In February of 2008 Microsoft made an offer to purchase Yahoo in a deal estimated to have been worth nearly $45 billion.  Yahoo quickly rejected the offer, and at the time of this writing, Microsoft is still in pursuit of acquiring Yahoo.

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