Thursday
December 25, 2008 2:00m
EST
Yahoo! en Espanol
announced the launch of
"Fin de Ano"
(http://fin-de-ano-yahoo.com/),
a Spanish-language mini
site that highlights
the most popular searches,
themes and trends, as
well a retrospective of
the top stories and images
of 2008. It also
features a shopping guide,
which helps users select
gifts based on style,
personality, sex and age
range, and articles that
offer holiday related
advice and ideas to assist
U.S. Hispanics in their
preparations.
"Yahoo! Fin
de Ano offers
a look back at the most
relevant topics that piqued
our users curiosity in
2008," said Jose
Rivera Font, vice president
and general manager, Yahoo!
Hispanic Americas. "It
also offers users handy
information on not only
preparing for the upcoming
festivities but also planning
ahead for success in 2009."
The 2008 Year in Review
site also presents the
top searches of the year
in a special Yahoo! POP
module, which highlights
the most searched terms
by the U.S. Hispanic community
in seven different categories
(Overall, Entertainment,
Celebrities, Music, Technology,
News and Sports).
The
Top 10 Overall Searches
for 2008 were:
Barack Obama
Michael Phelps
iPhone
Ingrid Betancourt
Beijing 2008
Britney Spears
Heath Ledger
Hombre Embarazado
Huracane Gustav
Katy Perry
The
'Preparativos' tab on
the site showcases articles
on top holiday topics
such as what to wear,
what's in style, how to
decorate, and how to entertain
this season, among others.
Also, the Shopping Guide
tab features more than
300 products as gift ideas
for loved ones and colleagues,
helping users find the
perfect gift for everyone
on their shopping list.
The categories include:
Gifts for Her, Gifts for
Him, Gifts for Children,
Most original Gifts, among
others.
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)
is an American public
corporation with headquarters
in Sunnyvale, California,
(in Silicon Valley), and
provides Internet services
worldwide. The company
is perhaps best known
for its web portal, search
engine, Yahoo! Directory,
Yahoo! Mail, news, and
social media websites
and services. Yahoo! was
founded by Jerry Yang
and David Filo in January
1994 and was incorporated
on March 1, 1995.
According
to Web traffic analysis
companies (including Compete.com,
comScore, Alexa Internet,
Netcraft, and Nielsen
Ratings), the domain yahoo.com
attracted at least 1.575
billion visitors annually
by 2008. The global network
of Yahoo! websites receives
3.4 billion page views
per day on average as
of October 2007. It is
the second most visited
website in the U.S., and
the most visited website
in the world.
Yahoo!
provides internet communication
services such as Yahoo!
Mail and Yahoo! Messenger,
Yahoo! Mail is the largest
e-mail service in the
world with almost half
the market share. In March,
2007, Yahoo! announced
that their email service
will offer unlimited storage
beginning May 2007. Yahoo!
Mail premium service MailPlus
provides additional functionality
including POP/SMTP access
to Yahoo! mail accounts,
although such functionality
is already provided for
free by Yahoo! competitor
Gmail. Some MailPlus subscribers
have reported difficulties
in successfully cancelling
their Mailplus (automatically
renewed and paid by credit
card) subscriptions. Although
other areas of the Mailplus
web interface appear to
function correctly, a
blank page appears when
users select "cancel service"
from the list of options
to manage the service.
It is unknown whether
this error has been an
accidental oversight by
Yahoo! programmers, or
a deliberate attempt to
retain Mailplus subscription
cash flows as long as
possible.
Yahoo!
also offers social networking
services and user-generated
content in products such
as My Web, Yahoo! Personals,
Yahoo! 360°, Flickr and
Yahoo! Buzz. Yahoo! Photos
was shut down on September
20, 2007 in favor of Flickr.
On October 16, 2007, Yahoo!
announced that they will
no longer provide support
or perform bug fixes on
Yahoo! 360° as they intend
to abandon it in early
2008 in favor of a "universal
profile" that will be
similar to their Mash
experimental system.
