Yahoo Search Engine

Yahoo search engine is a web search engine, owned by Yahoo, Inc. Yahoo search engine is the 2nd largest search engine on the web by query volume, at 6.29% after its competitor Google at 85.35% according to net applications. Originally, Yahoo Search engine started as a web directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In the late 1990. Yahoo evolved into a full-fledged portal with a search interface and, by 2007 a limited version of section banes search
Yahoo! Search, originally referred to as Yahoo! provided Search interface, would send queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of sites. The results were presented to the user under the Yahoo! brand. Originally, none of the actual web crawling and storage/retrieval of data was done by Yahoo! itself. In 2001 the searchable index was powered by Inktomi and later was powered by Google until 2004, when Yahoo! Search became independent. Yahoo! Search major competitors are: Google search engine, bing search engine and ask search.