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Yahoo

Summary

Yahoo is a web portal[1]. Yahoo ranks in the top 3% of web_portal entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,069 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Yahoo received the Silver Anvil Award[3].
  • Yahoo is in the country of United States[4].
  • Yahoo's image is recorded as Yahoo Headquarters.jpg[5].
  • Yahoo's instance of is recorded as web portal[6].
  • Yahoo's instance of is recorded as web service[7].
  • Yahoo's founder is recorded as David Filo[8].
  • Yahoo's founder is recorded as Jerry Yang[9].
  • Yahoo's owned by is recorded as Yahoo Inc.[10].
  • Yahoo's operator is recorded as Yahoo Inc.[11].
  • Yahoo's logo image is recorded as Yahoo! (2019).svg[12].
  • Yahoo's headquarters location is recorded as Sunnyvale[13].
  • Yahoo's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 174696712[14].
  • Yahoo's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n97120394[15].
  • Yahoo's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13560962q[16].
  • Yahoo's IdRef ID is recorded as 052525201[17].
  • Yahoo's IMDb ID is recorded as co0054481[18].
  • Yahoo's Commons category is recorded as Yahoo![19].
  • Yahoo's industry is recorded as web portal[20].
  • +1994-01-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Yahoo[21].
  • Yahoo's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/019rl6[22].
  • Yahoo's location of formation is recorded as Sunnyvale[23].
  • Yahoo's significant event is recorded as Yahoo! data breaches[24].
  • Yahoo's significant event is recorded as 2012 Yahoo! Voices hack[25].
  • Yahoo's significant event is recorded as Yahoo 2013 data breach[26].
  • Yahoo's significant event is recorded as Yahoo 2014 data breach[27].

Body

Reception

Yahoo received the Silver Anvil Award[3].

Cultural Impact

Things named for Yahoo include YAHOO! Search Popularity Award[28].

Why It Matters

Yahoo ranks in the top 3% of web_portal entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,069 views/month).[2] Yahoo has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] Yahoo is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Works attributed to Yahoo include Yahoo! Groups[31], a website[32], founded in 2001[33], written by Yahoo[34]; Yahoo! Live[35], a website[36], founded in 2008[37], written by Yahoo[38]; and Yahoo! Teachers[39], a website[40], founded in 2007[41], written by Yahoo[42]. Entities named for Yahoo include YAHOO! Search Popularity Award[28].

FAQs

What awards did Yahoo receive?

Honors received include Silver Anvil Award[3].

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References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [3] ↑ . apps.prsa.org. Retrieved . apps.prsa.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . nytimes.com. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . bloomberg.com. Retrieved . bloomberg.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Yahoo. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/yahoo
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_yahoo_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Yahoo}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/yahoo}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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