[1] This scheme was lucrative but proved unpopular both with website marketers (who were reluctant to pay), and the public (who were unhappy about the paid-for listings being indistinguishable from other search results).
[2] As of October 2006, Paid Inclusion ceased to guarantee any commercial listing and only helped the paid inclusion customers, by crawling their site more often and by providing some statistics on the searches that led to the page and some additional smart links (provided by customers as feeds) below the actual URL.
[7] Unlike Google or Microsoft, which generally keep confidential records of its users outside mainland China, Yahoo!
[9] Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders state that it is "ironic that companies whose existence depends on freedom of information and expression have taken on the role of censor.
Mail account to the Asia Democracy Forum before the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
[10] The verdict as published by the Chinese government stated that Shi Tao had sent the email through an anonymous Yahoo!
Holdings (the Hong Kong subsidiary of Yahoo) told the Chinese government that the IP address used to send the email was registered by the Hunan newspaper that Shi Tao worked for, and that police went straight to his offices and picked him up.
On 2 June 2006, the union representing journalists in the UK and Ireland (NUJ) called on its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo!
intensified in February 2006 when Reporters Without Borders released Chinese court documents stating that Yahoo!
Wang Xiaoning is a Chinese dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by authorities of the People's Republic of China for publishing controversial material online.
In September 2003, Wang was convicted of charges of "incitement to subvert state power" and sentenced to ten years in prison.
under human rights laws in federal court in San Francisco, California, United States.
for allegedly passing information (email and IP address) with the Chinese government that caused the arrests of writers and dissidents.
stated that it supported privacy and free expression for it worked with other technology companies to solve human rights concerns.
for not giving full details to the House Foreign Affairs Committee the previous year, stating it had been "at best inexcusably negligent" and at worst "deceptive".
[21] As a result of media scrutiny relating to Internet child predators and a lack of significant ad revenues, Yahoo!
executives were asked about this issue, and responded: "We know the sale of shark products is both legal in Asia and a centuries-old tradition.
's image and video hosting website, unveiled a redesigned layout and additional features, including one terabyte of free storage for all users, seamless photostream, cover photo and updated Android App.
[39] Many users criticized the changes, and the site's help forum received thousands of negative comments.
[40] In January 2014, a large scale malware attack was discovered by Fox IT in the Netherlands that was targeted at Java and dated back to December 30, 2013, especially affecting users in Romania, France, and the UK and being delivered to 300,000 Yahoo!
[43] A separate data breach, occurring earlier around August 2013, was reported in December 2016, and affected over 1 billion user accounts.
reported that the late 2014 breach likely used manufactured web cookies to falsify login credentials, allowing hackers to gain access to any account without a password.
[46][47][48] Scott Ard, a prominent editorial director fired from Yahoo in 2015, has filed a lawsuit accusing Mayer of leading a sexist campaign to purge male employees.
In the suit, Ard claimed that, prior to his firing, he had received "fully satisfactory" performance reviews since starting at the company in 2011 as head of editorial programming for Yahoo's home page, yet he was relieved of his role that was given to a woman who had been recently hired by Megan Lieberman, the editor-in-chief of Yahoo News.
[51][52][53] In October 2019, a former Yahoo engineer, Reyes Daniel Ruiz, pleaded guilty to federal charges of illegally accessing user accounts.
Ruiz had hacked about 6,000 users' accounts, including those of his friends, co-workers and many young women, seeking sexual images and videos.