Yahoo! Search

Yahoo Search is a web search engine, owned by Yahoo Inc., and was as of December 2009 the second largest search directory on the web by query volume, at 6.42%, after its competitor Google at 85.35% and before Baidu at 3.67%, according to Net Applications.

Yahoo Search, originally referred to as Yahoo provided Search interface, would send queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of sites. The results were presented to the user under the Yahoo brand. Originally, none of the actual web crawling and storage/retrieval of data was done by Yahoo itself. In 2001, the searchable index was powered by Inktomi and later was powered by Google until 2004, when Yahoo Search became independent.
On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo Search.

Industry	Internet
Founded	January 1994 (as Jerry's guide to the World Wide Web) March 1994 (as Yahoo!)
Founder(s)	Jerry Yang, David Filo
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Maynard Webb (Chairman) Marissa Mayer (CEO)