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  2. Yahoo! Japan Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! Japan Corporation (ヤフー株式会社, Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha) was a Japanese web services provider. It was founded in 1996 as a joint venture between SoftBank (current SoftBank Group) and American Yahoo! Inc. Its search engine was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. [2]

  3. Yahoo Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japan search engine was a directory-type search engine, similar to Yahoo! in the United States. A crawler-type search engine was used as well, and as the popularity of the crawler-type search engine gradually increased, after October 3, 2005, Yahoo! Japan began utilizing only the crawler-type engine. On June 29, 2017, Yahoo!

  4. Yahoo News - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. The site was created by Yahoo! software engineer Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, USA Today, CNN and BBC News. In 2000, Yahoo!

  5. The Japan Times - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.japantimes.co.jp. The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. [1][2] It is published by The Japan Times, Ltd. (株式会社ジャパンタイムズ, Kabushiki gaisha Japan Taimuzu), a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc. It is headquartered in the Kioicho Building (紀尾井町ビル, Kioicho Biru ...

  6. Yahoo - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo (/ ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [ 4 ][ 5 ] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications.

  7. Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands— Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu —and thousands of smaller islands, covering 377,975 square kilometres (145,937 sq mi). Japan has a population of nearly 124 million as of 2024, and is the eleventh-most populous country.

  8. Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017) - Wikipedia

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    Inc.[3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4][5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6] Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and ...

  9. Yahoo! Japan Search Awards - Wikipedia

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    Overview. Each year, Yahoo! Japan recognizes celebrities and businesses in various award categories for achieving significant search volumes for related keywords. The successful keywords in each category show the significant social impact of search terms and the reciprocal nature of what people search for online and what they're interested in ...