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Line 1: {{~~work~~website}} [[File:Yahoo! logo.svg\|thumb]] Started at Stanford University, Yahoo! is one of the Internet's largest and most popular portal sites. Originally a searchable directory of Web sites, Yahoo! has expanded to offer world news, free Web-based email, discussion groups, online games, and other services. It once owned GeoCities, a provider of free Web sites.▼ ▲Started at Stanford University, [[Yahoo!]] is one of the Internet's largest and most popular portal sites. Originally a searchable directory of Web sites, Yahoo! has expanded to offer world news, free Web-based email, discussion groups, online games, and other services. It once owned ~~GeoCities~~[[Geocities]], a provider of free Web sites, as well as the microblogging site [[tumblr]], and is widely blamed for the subsequent collapse/failure of both. It is currently (2019) owned by Verizon. ---- {{~~tropelist~~creatortropes}} * [[Fun with Acronyms]]: The name originally stood for "Yet Another Highly Organized Oracle". (Or, depending on who you ask, "Yet Another Hierarchically-Organized Oracle".) * [[Loophole Abuse]]: On Yahoo! Answers, you stand a good chance of gaining points quickly by voting for your own answer as the best. You get 2 points for the answer, 1 point for the vote, and 10 points when your answer is selected the best, making a total of 13 points for doing almost ''nothing''. Of course, that doesn't work if the asker selects a best answer, or if some other answer gets more votes. * [[Obvious Beta]]: Yahoo! Mail (the version codenamed "Minty"), with several users ''still'' experiencing hiccups compared to smoother functionality with Yahoo! Mail Classic, which is now virtually inaccessible save for [http://us.mc598.mail.yahoo.com/mc/launch an obscure method which can forcibly revert the user's email to Classic]{{Dead link}}. ** The search engine remains mostly useless through years: it "corrects" queries (i.e. any search term not in the dictionary of a 10-year old ~~blog~~[[Leet Lingo\|SMS-kid]] is turned into "twilight windows mortgage xbox") and it's unable to search multiple terms (it always does "OR"-search, which is useless, because the whole point is to narrow down to what you need - including more noise does the exact opposite, and gives auto-correction a chance to drown everything in widespread and completely irrelevant "finds"). About the only reasonably reliable uses of it are searches for trademarks, ads or widespread quotes. * [[We All Live in America]]: Yahoo! Answers. Not only the users, but often the forum itself indulges in quite a bit of it. {{Needs More Tropes}} {{reflist}} [[Category:Other Sites]] [[Category:Yahoo!]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] [[Category:Software Houses]]