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Marissa Mayer, American software engineer and businesswoman who influenced the development of Google, the world’s leading search engine company, in its early years and later served as CEO and president of Yahoo! (2012–17). Learn more about Mayer’s life and career.

Yahoo!, global Internet services provider based in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Communications since 2017. It was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, graduate students at Stanford University in California. Yahoo! provides users with online utilities, information, and access to other Web…

The Microsoft-Yahoo! arrangement was scheduled to last for 10 years, and Bing largely powered Yahoo! Search across the globe from 2012. In February 2010 the social networking site Facebook —which had more than 400 million users and was the second most-visited Web site after Google—made an agreement with Microsoft to present Bing results to ...

Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of “YHWH,” the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus.The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton. After the Babylonian Exile (6th century bce), and especially from the 3rd century bce on, Jews ceased to use the name Yahweh for ...