Yahoo Services

Yahoo as you all know is one of the popular websites known for providing many services over the internet. It is the ranked 2^nd on the internet for receiving 3.2 billion page views a day. Yahoo started in 1995 as an internet service provider and has continued its growth with several new products in the internet market today. The actual journey of Yahoo began in 1990s by its two co-founders David Filo and Jerry Yang. Have you ever noticed the real name of Yahoo? It is "Yahoo!" and not "Yahoo". You might what is the difference between the two. Let me remind you my dear friend that even an exclamation sign makes a difference when you go for registration of a company's name. When Yahoo was about to become a company, the name yahoo was already acquired by a barbeque sauce company and was pending registration. So its co-founders decided to add an exclamation mark at the end and get it registered with the name "Yahoo!".

Some of the popular services offered by Yahoo are:

Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo messenger is one of the preferred chat applications in India and other countries. With yahoo messenger you can chat with your friends, make calls to computers (free service) and phones (paid service), transfer files, use emotions and smiley's, watch photos in form of a gallery, etc. The new version of Yahoo messenger allows you to integrate other website contacts like Google's contact, Microsoft's and others within yahoo messenger, all at one place.

Yahoo Mail

Yahoo also offers a mail service and unlimited storage capacity to its users. With Yahoo Mail service, you can send messages across different providers and also send messages to mobile phones in popular countries. Earlier, Yahoo mail offered only 4 Mb to free users which later increased to 1 GB after the launch of Gmail by Google.

Yahoo Weather

Yahoo's weather service is yet another product of yahoo used by many websites, mobile phone companies and others. Yahoo weather service gives you detailed information about weather of any area where the technology is ideal to predict to the weather conditions. But, this service fails in India, either because the technology is not ideal or the weather here is not at all predictable. Also, Yahoo Weather doesn't show results in real time.

Yahoo Finance

Yahoo finance provides financial news and other related information to the users. Along with it, it also shows the market picture with the help of a graph for various markets and shares. The only limitation being that the market quotes are delayed by 20 minutes which is useless for an investor as real time figures are required.

Yahoo Games

Everyone likes to play games. Yahoo offers one such service called Yahoo Games where users can play for fun and for money. If you decide to play for money, then Yahoo offers a free bonus amount to those registering for the first time. The bonus is available only when you add some money to your Yahoo Games account.

These are some of the services offered by Yahoo. For a complete listing, you can visit http://everything.yahoo.com. Yahoo Everything lists all the services offered by Yahoo.