Search" referred to a Yahoo!-provided interface that sent queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of websites.

As of July 2018, Microsoft Sites handled 24.2 percent of all desktop search queries in the United States.

During the same period of time, Oath (the then-owner of the Yahoo brand) had a search market share of 11.5 percent.

Market leader Google generated 63.2 percent of all core search queries in the United States.

Directory, which was launched in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, then students at Stanford University.

In 2002, they bought Inktomi, a "behind the scenes" or OEM search engine provider, whose results are shown on other companies' websites and powered Yahoo!

[8] They combined the capabilities of search engine companies they had acquired and their prior research into a reinvented crawler called Yahoo!.

also started to sell the search engine results to other companies, to show on their own websites.

In addition, Search Assist was added; which provides real-time query suggestions and related concepts as they are typed.

's system for indexing information and images and create their own custom search engine.

[11] In April 2015, the Microsoft partnership was modified, now only requiring Bing results on the "majority" of desktop traffic, opening the ability for Yahoo to enter into non-exclusive deals for search services on mobile platforms and the remainder of desktop traffic.

Yahoo Image Search Results in 24 languages Yahoo Search indexed and cached the common HTML page formats, as well as several of the more popular file-types, such as PDF, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, RSS/XML and plain text files.

[18] In 2005, Yahoo began to provide links to previous versions of pages archived on the Wayback Machine.

Yahoo Shortcuts required the content-owner to modify the underlying HTML of his or her webpage to call out the specific keywords to be enhanced.

The technology for context-aware selection-based search on Yahoo pages was first developed by Reiner Kraft.

If enabled this add-on/feature enhanced Yahoo Search by automatically alerting users of viruses, spyware and spam websites.

Answers, Audio, Directory, Jobs, News, Mobile, Travel and various other services as listed on their About Yahoo Search page.

The results include news headlines, images from Flickr, business listings, local weather and links to other sites.

A zip code or city name is required for OneSearch to start delivering local search results.