Yahoo, a cosmopolitan technology conglomerate, is one of the most popular sites in the USA. It is occupied with Internet search, digital content and communication. It is worldwide acknowledged for its Web portal and search engine. Its online services are Yahoo Directory; Mail; News; Finance; Groups; advertising etc. It is equally popular as social media website too. Yahoo is a digital publisher. It is simultaneously advertising technology contributor. It’s headquarter is in Sunnyvale, California. With more than 7 billion readers per month yahoo is the highest-read media website. Yahoo is available in more than 30 languages. Approximately 700 million people visit Yahoo website each month. Yahoo is the contribution of Jerry Yang and David Filo. Marissa Mayer is the CEO and head of the company. The Company’s products consist of Search, Digital content, Communications, Flickr, and Tumblr. Yahoo Search serves to steer the Internet and find out information. News and information are made available through Yahoo.com. Users are connected through mobile phones, PC and tablets by means of Yahoo Mail. By using Flickr and Tumblr, users create and share photo and content.
Yahoo- one of the most popular Web portal and search engine
History:
The original name of Yahoo was “Jerry and David’s guide to the World Wide Web”. In January 1994, Yang and Filo created a directory of other websites by the original name of Yahoo. They were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University. In March 1994, Yang and Filo changed the web name from “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web” to “Yahoo!”. In January, 1995, the “yahoo.com” domain was formed.
How to open Yahoo Email Account?
To open a Yahoo Email Account visit: www.mail.yahoo.com and Click on “Create New Account”.
Then, fill out the required fields with necessary information. Information includes first and last name of the individual who wants to create a new user account, gender, mobile phone number, birth date and password. After filling up necessary fields, you’ll see the welcome screen. And you will be in the main page of mails mechanically.
Merits and demerits of having Yahoo Email Account:
One of the advantages of Yahoo Email is unlimited storage capacity. Yahoo Email uses Norton Virus Scan to scan user’s emails which ultimately protects user’s computer from virus attack. As a result, users may download email without any worry. By saving emails online, users may save space of their computer. Users can use Yahoo Chat without downloading Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo notepad is useful. Users may use calendar of Yahoo Email to keep track of personal schedule.
Yahoo users cannot use POP by means of Yahoo Email account for free. Now a day’s, yahoo ads appear everywhere so much that users get confused about the features. On the whole, the disadvantages of using Yahoo Email are nothing if compared to the advantages.
