Yahoo Inc. (styled as
Yahoo!) is an American
multinational technology company headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California. It is globally known for its
Web portal,
search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including
Yahoo! Directory,
Yahoo! Mail,
Yahoo! News,
Yahoo! Finance,
Yahoo! Groups,
Yahoo! Answers, advertising,
online mapping,
video sharing,
fantasy sports and its
social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to third-party
web analytics providers,
Alexa and
SimilarWeb, Yahoo! is the highest-read news and media website, with over 7 billion readers per month, being the fourth most visited website globally, as of June 2015. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month. Yahoo itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages."