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Contents 1 Vandalism 2 "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Location 3 Improve Products and Services section 4 Vandalism, lock the article? 5 Yahoo!7 6 POP3 Access 7 Other media/trivia 8 Putting "Yahoo!" in italics?

[edit] Vandalism

This article has just been vandalized with millions of copies of the words, "YAHOO HAS PORN!!!" I will delete this vandalism, but I would suggest removing editing of this article for a while. Even though Yahoo DOES have porn.

The vandal has been warned, and can be blocked if they keep it up. No need to protect the page. Dave6 05:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Location

Where excactly was "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" located? Does Archive.org have a copy of the homepage atleast, or is there a copy elsewhere?

[edit] Improve Products and Services section

I reorganized the article by merging the article on History of Yahoo! with the section History and Growth, created a new section Products and Services, and deleted the News section. I hope people can help elaborate and expand on the main products and services, perhaps later on we can add other sections like Yahoo!'s revenue model etc.

I also find the important events section a bit too exhaustive and unneeded in this main article about Yahoo!, perhaps transfer the list to another page and add some proses on the main important events in this article.

--wil osb 09:03, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism, lock the article?

There have been multiple instances of vandalism recently, i would suggest locking the article for editing, but since i'm rather new here i don't really know how, anyone? --wil osb 06:28, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Semi-protection_policy and Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. --moof 07:03, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yahoo!7

There's no mention in the article of what it is, and the name redirects here. Could someone add an explanation somewhere? Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 15:35, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POP3 Access

There is no mention about pop3 and smtp access for Yahoo! mail. Some time ago, yahoo! mail was accessible via pop3/smtp. Now, "premium" accounts are needed (this created some criticism) for yahoo.com accounts, but not for some other countries sites (including yahoo.fr, yahoo.com.au), etc...

In the same style, there is the feature of secondary addresses or "AddressGuard" (trademark of Yahoo)...

[edit] Other media/trivia

Should there be any mention that in the film Frequency the character Gordo gets a second chance at becoming wealthy by investing in Yahoo! stock while it was affordable?

[edit] Putting "Yahoo!" in italics?

For me at least seeing exclamation marks (!) in the middle of a sentence is distracting and hard to read, as an exclamation mark is intended for the end of sentences. English rules > trademarks.

My favorite search engine is Yahoo! because it is good.

My favorite search engine is Yahoo! because it is good.

My favorite search engine is Yahoo because it is good.

Either putting it in italics or getting rid of the !s all together after the first paragraph or so. Perhaps with the beginning with "Yahoo Inc. (styled Yahoo! Inc. in press reports and logos)...". Also please don't refer me to previous discussions about the article title. --Indolences 21:17, 7 April 2007 (UTC)