what are some amazing facts about yahoo ?

Despite the beautiful game’s popularity in Greenland, the country can’t join FIFA (the international governing body of football) because the extreme weather conditions mean grass cannot grow there. In 2006, they were allowed to participate in two World Cup qualifying games. They lost both.

"Yahoo" had  been trademarked for barbecue sauce, knives (by EBSCO Industries) and human propelled watercraft (by Old Town Canoe Co.). This was the reason of the e exclamation mark to the name. Yahoo !

For the third and final time, Nauru makes an appearance on the list. The country makes more money than its GDP by recognizing breakaway and disputed countries. A state aiming for sovereignty can only be taken seriously if it is recognized by other UN member states (the more, the better). In 2009, Nauru recognized Russian-backed Abkhazia and South Ossetia in exchange for $50 million in Russian aid. There have been other controversial examples involving Kosovo and Taiwan.

As of October 2009, Yahoo! has acquired 58 companies. 47 of these acquired companies are from the United States, and 8 are based in a foreign country .

Finally, Lichtenstein and Uzbekistan are the only countries in the world that are doubly landlocked. The first is locked by Switzerland and Austria, the second by Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, all of which are landlocked themselves.

On 2008, Yahoo! layed off apprx 2600 around the world due to the economic downturn

On November 30, 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo!'s search business for $20 billion.

On July 29, 2009, a 10 year deal with Microsoft  was done  which gave microsoft  full laccess to Yahoo!'s search  for its search engine, Bing

Yahoo! launched its new Internet advertisement sales system on February 5, 2007, called Panama.which  allows advertisers to bid for search terms.

Yahoo! Search BOSS is a service that allows developers to build search applications based on Yahoo!'s search technology.

Yahoo! Meme is a beta social service, similar to the popular social networking sites Twitter and Jaiku.

Founded in 1994 by Stanford University students David Filo and Jerry Yang, Yahoo was created as a type of directory for the Internet. It was originally called "Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web" and when the Yahoo name was agreed upon, its founders said in jest that it stood for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."

Yahoo! Next is an incubation ground for future Yahoo! technologies currently in their beta testing phase, similar to Google Labs.

Y!Connect enables individuals to leave comments in online publication boards by using their Yahoo ID.

Its initial public offering in 1996 was the largest for a tech startup at the time.

Based in Sunnyvale, California, Yahoo has offices around the world and was for years the leading "portal" for the Internet, with a home page that allowed users to click on categories such as sports, finance and movies, or search for information.

It employed 11,700 people. Marissa Mayer was named chief executive in July 2012 but has been cutting staff significantly. As of March 31, its employee count was estimated at 9,400 and falling.

Yahoo was once the leading search engine for the Internet but it has been overtaken by Google, which launched in 1998.

According to data compiled by Netmarketshare, Yahoo handles just 7.7 percent of global online searches compared with 70 percent for Google and 11 percent for Microsoft's Bing.

For online advertising, Yahoo is only expected to take 1.5 percent of the worldwide digital advertising market this year, down from 2.1 percent in 2015, according to eMarketer.

With its Web portal, Yahoo remains an important online destination for email, messaging, news, and video. It gets 204 million regular visitors in the United States, according to comScore, which ranks it as the third-largest digital media property in the US.

In October, Yahoo became the first online service to stream a regular season NFL American football match, getting 15 million viewers.

Yahoo's finances have been skewed by its stake in China's Alibaba. It bought a 40 percent stake in Alibaba in 2005 for $1 billion and its current holding is now worth some $30 billion - the vast majority of Yahoo's market value of around $37 billion. It also holds a multibillion-dollar stake in Yahoo Japan. These holdings will not be transferred to Verizon but remain in a separate entity.

In 2013, Yahoo moved to attract a younger audience by buying the online blogging platform Tumblr for $1 billion.

Yahoo posted a loss of $4.4 billion for 2015, and in its most recent quarter lost another $440 million, having to write down the value of much of its assets. Revenues for 2015 were $4.9 billion.