Yahoo's Main Page features the breaking national news, world news, local news, and financial news. They also have their big articles at the very top box. In categories of Featured, Entertainment, Sports, and Video. Their user options are on the top right box, search engine at the very top, and all the other features to the left, listed.
First off, Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo's mail service is not the same as many of its competitors, while you get all the same features that every web-mail service gives, you also get spam protection, as well as "Unlimited" storage space for your e-mails, yes, you heard me, unlimited. Yahoo lets you create folders to organize your mail, a notepad, a calendar, contacts list, and even an RSS Feed folder. That means if you read a certain blog or news website very often, you can just get the RSS Link from their website, and create a new feed in Yahoo Mail. Then, you simply click on the name of the Blog, in your mail folders, and you can see all the blog or news entries.
Next, the messenger created by Yahoo, cleverly named, Yahoo! Messenger. Essentially an instant messenger allows you to have conversations online with other people that use the same messenger. If you know anyone who uses Yahoo Messenger, you just add them to your buddy list, and then you two can chat away. This messenger allows sending of any file type, or stream video from your web cam or sound from your microphone. One feature that I found interesting that I haven't seen from other messengers is a Message History feature. This allows you to index and save the conversations you've had with other people.
Yahoo has its own Internet Radio service as well! Well, not quite a radio station of their own, it's even better. Yahoo lets you create your own radio station for you to listen to for free. You check which genres of music you like, then you can type in any specific artists you really like, and click create. In the Yahoo Music section of their website, they also have the top 100 charts for every type of music they keep track of. From Reggae to Country, Jazz to Metal. Also in that section is pretty much every recent music video made for you to watch, also for free. Maybe you don't like to be browsing the internet with your radio playing, or maybe your internet connection cuts out all the time. Well, Yahoo also has a music download service. The usual price per song is about 1.00 and they have gift cards that you can buy in stores to buy songs, or they take all forms of online payment methods. They also have a free 14-Day trial of their music service, if you want to give that a try.
Along with all that for their users, they also have the local forecast, horoscopes, and local news and events on the top right panel of the page. Remember, all of the services above are absolutely FREE. Yes, Free, moving on.
Now to begin the left panel of the main page, the other features of Yahoo.com. The top one is Yahoo! Answers, which is basically a forum, where you post a question, and other users respond to them with their answers. You can also help other users by answering their questions. Next is autos. Looking for a car? Well you may just find your dream car here, advanced car search from Yahoo. Not only can you find a car, but you can also find financing for a car, and car insurance here and compare prices between them all.
Tracking your stocks and finances can be very diffucult for some people, but just click on Finance and you can find current market value of every stock on the stock market. Finance news is available in much more depth on this page, and person finance and banking help is here, filled with fun calculators and ways to monitor and budget your money. Yahoo! Groups is a way for people to get together and discuss any topic they may desire. HotJobs is a way for people to find local jobs, see job listings, and post their resume. Maps to and from, Movie Times and Tickets, Real Estate, and Shopping can all be found from the as well.
Paid Features
Yahoo Personals
One is Yahoo Personals. Yahoo! Personals is a great way to find your new love or just a quick romance. Extreme searching and comparison matching makes the matches you get back extremely close matches to find the one who suits you best. This does come at a price though, and they have different pricing for different subscriptions, so read more in-depth on that page to find out more. Yahoo Web Hosting
Another Paid-For service is Web Hosting. Yahoo offers a very nice web hosting service with excellent customer support. The Web-Hosting deal that Yahoo offers is incredible. They state that you get Unlimited Web Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, and Unlimited Email storage, AND a Free Domain name, for only $11.95 a month. This is an incredible rate for the product you're looking at. Yahoo! Mail Plus
The last paid service they offer is Yahoo! Mail Plus. This allows an attachment size increase from 5mb per message, to 20mb per message. This means you can send larger files in attachments. It also eliminates all the pesky ads in your e-mail homepage. It also enables POP3 Mail, which means you can use an E-Mail program like Microsoft Outlook with your e-mail, and Stationary for your mail.There are even more features to Yahoo, that I would have to take up pages and pages of the blog to describe! I give Yahoo.com a 5/5.
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