Yahoo! - A company which began as a hobby

Yahoo! - A company which began as a hobby

A comprehensive quiz about Yahoo!

published on April 08, 2010
1/18

What is the nationality of Yahoo! ?

Japanese
American
German
Australian
U.K.
2/18

What year was yahoo founded?

1994
1995
1996
1997
3/18

Who founded Yahoo?

Hint: 2 choices
David Filo
Bill Gates
Jerry Yang
Lawrence E. Page
Sergey M. Brin
4/18

Which of the followings is true about Yahoo! Pager?

It was renamed to Yahoo Messenger
Is the name of their search engine
Is a personal telecommunications device built by Yahoo
5/18

The official backronym for 'YAHOO' name is:

Hint: 5 choices
Yet
Yes
Add
Another
Hierarchical
Hierarchically
Hypertext
Organized
Online
Officious
Organizer
Origin
Oracle
6/18

Yahoo! Messenger is interoperable with ...

GTalk
AIM
Windows Live Messenger
Skype
ICQ
aMSN
jMSN
7/18

Which of the following services are owned by Yahoo! Company?

Hint: 2 choices
YouTube
Flickr
Delicious
MySpace
FaceBook
8/18

Which of the following services were closed by Yahoo Company ?

Hint: 4 choices
Yahoo! 360
Yahoo! Video
Yahoo! TV
Yahoo! Gallery
Yahoo! Geocities
Yahoo! Photos
Yahoo! Mail
9/18

What is the storage limit of the Yahoo! Mail service?

0.5 GB
1 GB
2 GB
4 GB
8 GB
10 GB
Unlimited
10/18

Microsoft tried several times to buy Yahoo during 2005, 2006 and 2007. Which was their biggest offer?

15$/share
18$/share
20$/share
34$/share
40$/share
11/18

The name of the Internet advertising service provided by Yahoo! is

AdWords
AdSense
Search Marketing
AdCenter
LookSmart
12/18

Is it true that Yahoo! do not protect the privacy and confidentiality of its mainland Chinese customers from the authorities?

Yes
No
Yahoo! services are not available In China
13/18

The Yahoo! Search is the ... largest search engine by query volume in the world

1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
14/18

Which was the biggest acquisition by value of Yahoo! ?

GeoCities
del.icio.us
Overture Services, Inc
Hotjobs.com
Broadcast.com
15/18

Yahoo! Directory, one of the biggest Directory available is a:

Paid service
Free service
16/18

Which of the following is true about Yahooligans:

it was completely discontinued
is not a service of Yahoo!
it was renamed to Yahoo! Kids
it is a website for hackers
17/18

Which of the following is true about Yahoo! 360?

it was completely discontinued
it was discontinued, excepting the Vietnam Version
it is fully active
18/18

Which of the following is true about LAUNCHcast?

is not a service related to Yahoo! at all
it was renamed to Yahoo! Music Radio
it is a radio and video service offered by Yahoo