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75 unusual facts about Yahoo!


ABN Newswire

Asia Business News is produced daily in thirteen (13) languages and distributed to major international media outlets such as Bloomberg L.P. (ABN Wire Code ABZN), Thomson Reuters, Comtex, FinancialContent, Factiva, Yahoo! Finance and the Financial Times Global Media Monitor at FT.com as well as many financial internet news publishers.

Answers

Yahoo! Answers, community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo

Australian Horror Writers Association

Other projects established by the AHWA include the Southern Horror Yahoo! Group mailing list for members, an annual flash fiction and short story competition (winning entries are published in Midnight Echo magazine), online chatrooms and forums, a Market Hive (markets database for current horror fiction markets), an annual mentorship programme, and ongoing story critiquing groups.

Autonomous sensory meridian response

Online discussions by groups such as the Society of Sensationalists formed in 2008 on Yahoo! and The Unnamed Feeling blog created in 2010 by Andrew MacMuiris aimed to provide a community for learning more about the sensation by sharing ideas and personal experiences.

Batna, Algeria

Online, the youths enjoy just googling, surfing the internet, or chatting with overseas people using MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, caramail, and so on.

Bentley Azure

According to 2009 research by internet company Yahoo!, the Azure is the fourth most fuel consuming car on sale in the United Kingdom.

Big Hawk

He was part of Pepsi's Yahoo! "Houston Mic Pass" with Lil' Flip, Chamillionaire, Trae, Chingo Bling, Bun B, Short Dawg, Magno and Mike D. Since his death, Hawk has been featured on several tracks including Lil O's "I Do" single, "Down In Texas" off of the 2008 A.B.N. album It Is What It Is, and Big Unk's "I'ma Beast" to name a few.

BrightQube

Prior to founding BrightQube, Lee held various management and executive positions at Digital Railroad, Hewlett-Packard, Eastman Kodak, Yahoo! Photos, PictureIQ and Pixology.

Bryce Brown

Brown, along with his brother Arthur, were named in a report from Yahoo! Sports alleging that student-athletes, coaches and administrators were aware and received impermissible benefits from an ex-booster Nevin Shapiro.

Bush League TV

Patton played the game for 28 hours and video-streamed his efforts on Yahoo! Live, starting on April 29 at 5 pm.

Cernan Earth and Space Center

The Cernan Center also features earth- and space-related exhibits, the Friends of the Cernan Center membership program, the Star Store gift shop (with online shopping via its Yahoo! store) and a website (link provided below).

Child grooming

In 2005, Yahoo! chat rooms were investigated by the New York State attorney general's office for allowing users to create rooms whose names suggested that they were being used for this purpose.

Christopher Null

Christopher Null is a film critic, columnist and former blogger for Yahoo! Tech, editor of Drinkhacker.com, and was the founder and editor-in-chief of Filmcritic.com, which operated from 1995 to 2012.

Cyril Houri

Houri has designed IP address geolocation, WiFi and cellular positioning technologies, and has testified as an expert witness on location-based technology in LICRA vs. Yahoo!.

In 2000, Yahoo! was sued by two French anti-racism groups demanding that Yahoo! France prevent French web users from accessing English-language auction sites offering Nazi memorabilia, which are illegal in France.

D. J. Fluker

On September 11, 2013, Yahoo Sports reported Fluker, along with four other players received benefits totaling in the thousands of dollars from former Alabama football player, Luther Davis.

Divine.ca

divine.ca also partners with Yahoo! Canada to present lifestyle content on the Yahoo! site.

Donté Stallworth

A Yahoo! Sports story published August 12, 2010, reported that Stallworth's lawyers indicated he could have fought all charges with "an excellent chance of being found innocent," but that Stallworth chose to be convicted of a felony to do what he felt was morally right.

E'Twaun Moore

As a junior, as well, he was named a Yahoo! Sports Third-Team All-American and an AP Honorable Mention All-American.

European Privacy Association

In 2013, CEO filed a complaint against EPA because the association had not listed any corporate sponsors in the EU Transparency Register, claiming that it had only ten natural persons as members; EPA then admitted that Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are among its members.

Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess

Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess received positive reviews from critics and viewers, receiving an average of "4 out of 5 stars" from fans on Japan Yahoo! Movies.

Farnoosh Torabi

In 2010, Ms. Torabi joined Yahoo! Finance to host a weekly video series entitled Financially Fit.

FunTrivia

The owner, Terry Ford, contacted Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang and the website was added under a new "trivia" category in the Yahoo directory.

Hari Vasudev

Hari Vasudev is the head of Yahoo! India R&D and also leads Yahoo! Answers and Yahoo! Groups.

Harvard Crimson men's basketball

According to Jay Hart of Yahoo! Sports,With the financial barrier to entry lifted, an offer to play basketball at Harvard became instantly competitive with the rest of the world of collegiate athletics, where full-ride scholarships are (purportedly) the only currency.

HITS algorithm

Counting the number of links to a page can give us a general estimate of its prominence on the Web, but a page with very few incoming links may also be prominent, if two of these links come from the home pages of Yahoo! or Google or MSN.

Humanitarian-FOSS

The Humanitarian-ICT community was started with an informal Yahoo! group that was open for anyone to join.

IHeartRadio

On June 8, 2012, iHeartRadio concluded a deal to power Yahoo! Music's Radio service, previously powered by CBS Radio.

Inter Park

Large international companies, such as LG and Samsung, sell their newest products and offer services on EBay and Yahoo! using competitive auctions and fixed-priced storefronts.

Isaiah Rider

"It was the ultimate low point of my life ... There were no visitors. No one down for me. No letters. I had fake friends. They left me for dead," Rider told Yahoo! Sports.

J. Keith van Straaten

During the 2007 and 2008 Academy Award season, he authored a blog on Yahoo! Movies covering events and information up to and including the awards show.

James Altucher

Altucher is a frequent guest contributor to The Daily Ticker feature on Yahoo! Finance & TechCrunch.

Jeff Bonforte

Jeff Bonforte has returned to Yahoo! as Senior Vice President of Communications Products, responsible for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Contacts and Yahoo! Calendar.

Jobstr

Jobstr features an "ask me anything" format, popularized by Reddit and Formspring, which deviates from the more traditional Q&A format employed by sites including Yahoo! Answers and Quora where any user may submit an answer to a question, after which other users can vote to indicate their favorite of all answers submitted.

Johan Petro

On July 10, 2010, the New Jersey Nets signed Petro to a three-year deal worth $10 million, reported by Yahoo! Sports.

Kodee Kennings

"Dan" also called the newsroom and maintained an e-mail address at Yahoo! "Dan" was even portrayed as having been injured in a December, 2004 explosion in a mess hall at a base near Mosul, Iraq.

LG Rumor 2

Virgin Mobile added Ultimate Inbox to the LG Rumor 2 which includes several choices of push E-mail communication with support for Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, AOL Mail, Gmail, and an additional user-defined POP or IMAP account.

Love and Glamour

Melanie Dee of Yahoo! Voices gave Love and Glamour a mixed review, stating that while it "smells simply delicious", it was unoriginal in contrast to her previous fragrances and opined that "it will not wow perfume connoisseurs out there enough to become a mainstream must have fragrance like her original Glow".

Lukas Biewald

From 2005 to 2006, Biewald led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan, where he focused on using statistical machine learning approaches to improve the web search ranking function for international markets.

M.Net Corporation

m.Net is now a successful commercial operation with Yahoo!7, Telstra Corporation, and Alcatel-Lucent as major shareholders.

Microsoft Live Labs

Live Labs was headed by Dr. Gary William Flake, who prior to joining Microsoft was a principal scientist at Yahoo! Research Lab and former head of research at the Web portal's Overture Services division.

Mike Kernell

In October 2008, Kernell's son David was indicted by a Tennessee grand jury in connection with the unauthorized access of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account.

OCLC

Google, Yahoo!, and Ask.com have all collaborated with OCLC in order to make the WorldCat records searchable through those search engines.

Rhodium Nights

In an interview with Yahoo TV show runner/executive producer Warren Leight noted, "This episode is a real potboiler that involves a lot of politics, and in politics, you never know who to trust."

Rikke Hvilshøj

The police say that the email was composed the day before the attack, on a Yahoo! Mail account in the Internet cafe Powerplay on Østerbro, Copenhagen.

RUOK? Day

In 2009 Yahoo!7's Sunrise reported that 650,000 conversations took place as a result of the campaign, which statistically is proven to help stop little problems turning into big ones.

Site59.com

In addition to its own web site, Site59 operated a private label distribution (ASP) product, powering last-minute sections of Travelocity, AOL Travel, CheapTickets, Yahoo! Travel, American Airlines Vacations, Delta Air Lines Vacations, Continental Airlines Vacations, Northwest's nwa.com, and Bestfares.com, among others.

SMS gateway

Yahoo! Messenger, accessible through a dedicated client application, or through a Web site (mail.yahoo.com) have support for SMS messages.

Stacey Bradford

Bradford's articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal's Sunday Journal, RealEstateJournal.com, and CareerJournal.com, as well as Consumer Reports, AOL and Yahoo! Finance.

Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives

The event was hosted by Strikeforce in conjunction with bodogFight, and was streamed live on Yahoo! Sports.

Tashiro Masashi no Princess ga Ippai

The game was not very successful, but it started appearing frequently and getting high prices on online auction sites like Yahoo! after 2000, when Masashi Tashiro was arrested and convicted several times in connection with voyeurism and drug abuse.

Terry Bowden

He was also an exclusive college football columnist for Yahoo! Sports.

Thanatosensitivity

A 2004 news story describes how Yahoo! denied the family of Justin Ellsworth, a deceased US marine, access to his email, preventing them from accessing information necessary for handling the aftermath of the account owner's death.

TrustRank

TrustRank is a link analysis technique described in a paper by Stanford University and Yahoo! researchers for semi-automatically separating useful webpages from spam.

Uclick

Uclick content is distributed online through consumer and news web portals such as Yahoo!, MSNBC.com, New York Times, washingtonpost.com, CNN, USA TODAY, and AOL.

University of Minnesota Crookston

Yahoo! Internet Life Online ranked UMC the number 1 "Most Wired College in America" for 2000 in its category.

Vladimir Guerrero

In an interview with Yahoo! Sports, he attributed this to helping his grandfather pull cows home barehanded as a young boy in the Dominican Republic.

WOEID

A WOEID (Where on Earth IDentifier) is a unique 32-bit reference identifier assigned by Yahoo! to identify any feature on Earth.

Yahoo! Consumer group

This unit will continue to drive original coverage of breaking news events and events like the Royal Wedding and the upcoming Olympics and US Elections.

Yahoo! Groups

Chester Wisniewski, a senior security advisor at Sophos, a computer security company, stated in 2011 that spam messages posted on Yahoo! Groups bypass spam filters by way of using digital signatures.

Yahoo! HotJobs

The company startled the advertising world in 1999 when it bought a $1.6 million commercial during Super Bowl XXXIII, considering that its total revenues were approximately $2.5 million.

Yahoo! Internet Life

Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, the well-known web portal and search engine website.

Yahoo! Kids

TV, which gave users access to DIC's 3,000 hours of animated children programs.

Yahoo! Mail

The messages range from cultural references ("I AM the walrus") to sarcastic ("If you don't tell lies, at least you don't have to remember what you have said.") to unusual and outlandish ("the art of driving a giant, nuclear powered duck").

Yahoo! Messenger

The story prompted several advertisers, including Pepsi and Georgia-Pacific, to pull their ads from Yahoo.

In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by ICQ, it also offers (on Microsoft Windows) features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows, some of which include authorized themes of famous cartoons such as Garfield or Dilbert), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages.

Yahoo Messenger users are subject to unsolicited messages (SPIM).

The move came after KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas reported that many of the user-created rooms were geared toward pedophilia.

Yahoo! Movies

The Oscars site includes articles, show coverage, a list of the night's big winners, photos, videos, polls, and a blog, written by J. Keith van Straaten.

Yahoo! Movies (formerly Upcoming Movies), provided by the Yahoo! network, is home to a large collection of information on movies, past and new releases, trailers and clips, box office information, and showtimes and movie theater information.

Yahoo! Music

Previously, users with Yahoo accounts can gain access to hundreds of thousands of songs sorted by artist, album, song and genre.

Yahoo! Sharpener Award

Entries were reviewed by an influential jury including Mark Roalfe (RKCY) and Guy Philipson (IAB).

Yahoo!7

In November 2011, Yahoo!7 launched Fango, a free iOS and Android application which allows TV viewers to discuss and interact with TV programs being shown on Seven (particularly shows with a large community following, such as Home and Away and Border Security) and other TV shows.

Yahoo!Xtra

In December 2006, Telecom made a new agreement, founding a joint venture with Australia's Yahoo!7 – itself a joint company between the Seven Network and Yahoo! – to form Yahoo!Xtra.

Yahoo!Xtra's 'X meets Y' promotion at launch featured a television commercial with Regina Spektor's song "Fidelity" playing whilst a young couple undertake in a lingering kiss.


Brian French

fun. - Yahoo on the Road (Live Stream / Capture ) - San Francisco – Production Manager / Stage Manager (2013)

Budi Putra

Prior to joining Yahoo! as Country Editor for Indonesia in October 2009, he was working as editor for Koran Tempo Daily and Tempo Interactive.

Christopher Null

Null has written for numerous publications, including Wired, Business 2.0, PC World, Men's Journal, San Francisco Magazine, Yahoo! Internet Life, Working Woman, San Jose Magazine, The Austin Chronicle, and The Austin American-Statesman.

Craig Shemon

In addition to Yahoo Sports Radio, he also served as a talk show host for Fox Sports Radio and has called play-by-play for NFL on Fox, NFL Europe on NFL Network, and college football and basketball for the Big Ten Network.

DMARC

This means that senders will experience consistent authentication results for their messages at AOL, Comcast, Gmail, Hotmail, Mail.ru, Netease, XS4ALL, Yahoo! and any other email receiver implementing DMARC.

Ereka Vetrini

Ereka is the host of the HGTV program Kidspace, a spokesperson for the TRIA Laser Hair Removal system, and host of Yahoo's Easy Does It.

Family tree mapping

Map My Ancestors(Note as of 3 Oct 2011 this application was withdrawn from sale and no longer available, due to closure of Yahoo Mapping services see the source site for details) - a Windows application that imports GEDCOM files or comma-separated values (CSV) files and converts them to keyhole markup language (KML) files for viewing with KML compatible programs such as Google Earth or Google Maps.

Farzad Nazem

At the time, Lycos, Infoseek and Excite were considered established and more popular internet search engines while Yahoo! was better described as an internet directory.

Geolocation

A WOEID (Where on Earth IDentifier) is a unique 32-bit reference identifier assigned by Yahoo! to identify any feature on Earth.

Inside the Hollow

Its music video premiered on Yahoo!'s LAUNCHcast on 5 July 2006, and has been featured on MTV's Making the Video.

Internet Society of China

The ISC issues what the Chinese government calls “self-disciplinary regulations,” including the Public Pledge on Self-Discipline for the Chinese Internet Industry, which has been signed by thousands of organizations operating websites in China, including Baidu, Soseen, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google.

Jeff Bonforte

Prior to working for Yahoo he was the President of Gizmo5, which was sold to Google in November 2010.

Kyle Kaplan

He played Greg Grunberg's nephew in NBC's Grand Union sitcom pilot in 2005 and has appeared in several national commercials, including Wendy's restaurants, Yahoo!, Cingular Wireless, Simon Malls, Dairy Queen, and most recently, Honda.

Leopoldo María Panero

#The quote that headlines the text: Fifteen men over the Dead Man's Chest/ Fifteen men over the Dead Man's Chest/ Yahoo! And a bottle of rum!, which is the song that the pirates sing in Robert L. Stevenson's "The treasure island" (evidently, there is also a film adaptation).

Lycos Europe

Sold assets included the sale of the Danish portal Jubii, the Lycos Chat - worldsbiggestchat (which at the time was both the Lycos & Yahoo Chat in Europe) was transferred to the new operator Noesis Systems Ltd, on March 9, 2009 and later rebranded as the Noesis Chat, Love@Lycos was sold to a Swedish company.

MafiaBoy

MafiaBoy was the Internet alias of Michael Demon Calce, a high school student from West Island, Quebec, who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo!, Fifa.com, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN.

Ripe Digital Entertainment

The services were mainly distributed through cable video on demand services such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and FiOS, along with syndication through the AOL, Google and Yahoo ad networks.

ShipWorks

It is a multi-carrier shipping software that integrates with over 40 online sales and marketplace systems including eBay, PayPal, Amazon, and Yahoo.

SoftBank

Additionally, it has various partnerships in Japanese subsidiaries of foreign companies such as Yahoo!, E-Trade, Ustream.tv, EF Education First and Morningstar.

Tom Coates

He has written extensively about social software, the web of data, location services and future media distribution and launched the Fire Eagle location service for Yahoo in 2008.

Virtual pharmacy

The consumer basically finds their favorite virtual pharmacy through search engines like Google or Yahoo, explains their symptoms, look at the recommended drugs and fills out an online questionnaire that is forwarded to doctor for approval.

Yamigo

Once registered, Yamigo users can use their mobile phones to text-talk with each other, and they can also chat with their buddies on Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ.

YouTrack

It also has an integration with TeamCity, IntelliJ IDEA, TestLink, TestRail, and supports user authentication with Google Account, Yahoo!, OpenID and LDAP.