Advantages: good website, the most popular in the world so must be worth something
Disadvantages: not as good as the new Google
Yahoo is officially the best website in the world, not my word hell definitely not my opinion, but fact.
It is the most visited website bar none (second is msn, then google...etc)
Yahoo is an American public corporation and global Internet services company. It provides a range of products and services including a web portal, a search engine, the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and posting. It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
It has 11,700 employees! revenues of 1.67 billion dollars (early 2007)!!!
I have personally used yahoo, its pretty good, the majority of users are the American population.
Statistics showing the websites popularity can be seen by Alexa.com.
Their main rival is Google (and MSN)
Like Google they offer services like web page building (yahoo geocities) (they offered this much before google!) (google's services are however better in my opinion) The emailing services are also one of the most popular in the world, however compared to Gmail (i have accounts with both google and yahoo,) Gmail is however better (newer too) as Gmail's space is over 2gb and increasing every second, it also provides a live chat when checking emails which Yahoo does not - you need to be logged into yahoo messenger - a separate application to launch chat.
Yahoo being such a big company has been in a lot of business and gained incredibly in the dot com boom, they even planned to merge 50/50 with ebay at one time (though never did)
The homepage of yahoo.com takes about a second to load, it shows the latest headlines, top searches and marketplace and allows you to easily navigate to whichever service you desire, eg. weather, email, etc.
Summary: Yahoo is remaining on top due to the fact americans are used to its service and dont want to change!
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