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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), video sharing (Yahoo! Video), and social media websites and services. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairperson of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. According to Web traffic analysis companies (including Compete.com, comScore, Alexa Internet, Netcraft, and Nielsen Ratings), the domain yahoo.com attracted at least 1.575 billion visitors annually by 2008. The global network of Yahoo! websites receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2007. It is the second most visited website in the world in May 2009. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. Has anyone else had Yahoo personnel illegally shut down your ability to send a e-mail because they can't take criticism? So called free speech at Yahoo is not allowed and try to control their customers free speech. Time for action. Let me know if you want to join! Asked by debenedetti1 - Mon Jul 21 13:58:23 2008 - - 7 Answers - 1 Comments A. Just open a Hotmail account ... I've had 2 hotmail accounts for over 8 years and never had a problem with them .. and they are free. Answered by Pyar - Mon Jul 21 14:07:14 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Yahoo" See also:
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