The Yahoo! Directory is a web directory which rivals the Open Directory Project in size. The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering. When Yahoo! changed to crawler-based listings for its main results in October 2002, the human-edited directory's significance dropped, but it was still being updated in August 2010. The Yahoo! Directory offers two options for suggesting websites for possible listing: "Standard", which is free and a paid submission process that offers expedited review Payment is required when suggesting a commercial site.
Yahoo! provides both a search engine and a directory service, and the directory is searchable separately from the rest of their search engine results.
While Yahoo! has closed a number of country-specific directories, the company has stated that it currently "has no plans to close the main Yahoo! Directory"
See also
- List of web directories
References
- ^ How do I add my web site to the Yahoo! Directory?, Yahoo! website, accessed January 30, 2008
- ^ Yahoo! Directory Submit, Yahoo! website, accessed January 30, 2008
- ^ "Yahoo! Closes European Directories, Says US Directory Is Safe", SearchEngineLand.com, accessed August 13, 2010.
Yahoo! Music, owned by Yahoo!, is the provider of a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming. Users with Yahoo! accounts can gain access to hundreds of thousands of songs sorted by artist, album, song and genre.
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History
Yahoo! Music began as "LAUNCH", a website and magazine produced by LAUNCH Media which Yahoo! acquired for USD$12 million in 2001. LAUNCH was later rebranded as "Yahoo! Music", then simply "Y! Music" in February 2005. LAUNCH's LAUNCHcast Internet radio and music video offerings were integrated into Yahoo!'s site along with artist profiles containing an extensive selection of music and biographical information.Yahoo! Music was the number one online music site in terms of audience reach and total time spent in March 2007.
As of June 2008[update], Yahoo! Music's old website is inactive and redirecting to the new website at new.music.yahoo.com.
Products
Yahoo! Music offers a variety of products, including:- Yahoo! Music Radio (formerly LAUNCHcast) (Content provided by CBS Radio) and LAUNCHcast Plus Internet radio (No Longer offered beginning Feb. 2009)
- Yahoo! Music Jukebox
- Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscription streaming and download service
- Live Sets - Exclusive video concerts from A-list artists
- Who's Next - Listeners vote on emerging artists
- Pepsi Smash on Yahoo! Music - Exclusive video interviews, performances, and reality segments
- Artist profiles, music videos and lyrics
- Official Grammy Awards coverage
Key dates
In 2001, Yahoo! purchased LAUNCH Media, makers of the LAUNCHcast Internet radio service. On September 14, 2004, Yahoo! purchased Musicmatch, Inc., makers of the Musicmatch Jukebox software. As of Musicmatch 10.1, Yahoo! has rebranded Musicmatch Jukebox as Yahoo! Music Musicmatch Jukebox, and integrated it with the Yahoo! Music Engine store. The main difference is the branding and physical program. In 2005, Yahoo! Music became the first major online music service to provide a $5 per month unlimited download service similar to the Open Music Model, albeit with digital rights management, called Yahoo! Music Unlimited. In 2008, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Music Unlimited will be merged into Rhapsody.This merge was completed with the shutdown of Yahoo! Music Unlimited on September 30, 2008.Lyrics
Yahoo! Music provides officially licensed lyrics. Only officially licensed lyrics should be linked to per Wikipedia.Limits
- Local stations are limited to CBS affiliates
- No play-on-demand, playback, rewind, or fast-forward
- No direct customization, although rating songs influences the songs played
- Songs cannot be banned entirely, although a one-star rating will have it played very rarely
- Commercial interruptions every hour
- A maximum of six skips per hour per station. Refreshing or reloading the player, as well as changing the station, will use a skip.
- Banner ads, which cannot be blocked
- As of 2010, there is no premium service to remove skip limits or ads.
Yahoo! Movies (formerly Upcoming Movies), provided by the Yahoo! network, is home to a large collection of information on movies, past and new releases, trailers and clips, box office information, and showtimes and movie theater information. Yahoo! Movies also includes red carpet photos, actor galleries, and production stills. Users can read critic's reviews, write and read other user reviews, get personalized movie recommendations, purchase movie tickets online, and create and view other user's lists of their favorite movies.
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Special coverage
Yahoo! Movies devotes special coverage to the Academy Awards with a special Oscars site. The Oscars site includes articles, show coverage, a list of the night's big winners, photos, videos, polls, and a blog, written by J. Keith van Straaten.From 2002 to 2007, Yahoo! Movies was the home of Greg's Previews of Upcoming Movies, an enhanced version of Upcomingmovies.com, written by its creator, Greg Dean Schmitz. During much of this time, Schmitz frequently appeared in print, radio and television as a representative of Yahoo! Movies.
Yahoo! Movies also releases special guides, such as the Summer Movie Guide, which contains information on the major releases of the summer with exclusive trailers and clips, photos, box office information, polls, and unique editorial content.
Additionally, Yahoo! Movies is teaming up with MTV to host a special site for the MTV Movie Awards, which will feature show information and a section where users can submit original movie shorts parodying last year's movies for the chance to win the new award, Best Movie Spoof.
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