Yahoo! Video
Encyclopedia
Yahoo! Video is a video sharing
website
on which users could upload and share videos. The service is owned and created by Yahoo!
. Yahoo! Video began as an internet-wide video search engine
and added the ability to upload and share video clips in June 2006. A re-designed site was launched in February 2008 that changed the focus to Yahoo-hosted video only.
On December 15, 2010, the functionality to upload video was removed. All user-generated content was to be removed on March 15, 2011.
The homepage contains editorially-featured videos that change daily and skew towards comedy, viral videos, talented users, odd things, animation, and premium entertainment content.
Video hosting service
A video hosting service allows individuals to upload video clips to an Internet website. The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view this video...
website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
on which users could upload and share videos. The service is owned and created by Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
. Yahoo! Video began as an internet-wide video search engine
Search engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
and added the ability to upload and share video clips in June 2006. A re-designed site was launched in February 2008 that changed the focus to Yahoo-hosted video only.
On December 15, 2010, the functionality to upload video was removed. All user-generated content was to be removed on March 15, 2011.
The homepage contains editorially-featured videos that change daily and skew towards comedy, viral videos, talented users, odd things, animation, and premium entertainment content.
Localization
| Country | URL | Languages |
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| http://au.video.yahoo.com/ | English (Australia) Australian English Australian English is the name given to the group of dialects spoken in Australia that form a major variety of the English language.... |
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| http://br.video.yahoo.com/ | Portuguese (Brazil) Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by most of the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan and Paraguay.... |
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| http://ca.video.yahoo.com/ | English (Canada) Canadian English Canadian English is the variety of English spoken in Canada. English is the first language, or "mother tongue", of approximately 24 million Canadians , and more than 28 million are fluent in the language... |
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| http://fr.video.yahoo.com/ | French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... |
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| http://de.video.yahoo.com/ | German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.... |
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| http://hk.video.yahoo.com/ | Chinese (Traditional) | |
| http://uk.video.yahoo.com/ | English (United Kingdom) Hiberno-English Hiberno-English is the dialect of English written and spoken in Ireland .English was first brought to Ireland during the Norman invasion of the late 12th century. Initially it was mainly spoken in an area known as the Pale around Dublin, with Irish spoken throughout the rest of the country... |
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| http://uk.video.yahoo.com/ | English (Ireland) Hiberno-English Hiberno-English is the dialect of English written and spoken in Ireland .English was first brought to Ireland during the Norman invasion of the late 12th century. Initially it was mainly spoken in an area known as the Pale around Dublin, with Irish spoken throughout the rest of the country... |
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| http://it.video.yahoo.com/ | Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia... |
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| http://mx.video.yahoo.com/ | Spanish (Mexico) Mexican Spanish Mexican Spanish is a version of the Spanish language, as spoken in Mexico and in various places of Canada and the United States of America, where there are communities of Mexican origin.... |
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| http://video.google.nl/ | Dutch (Netherlands) Dutch language Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second... |
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| http://es.video.yahoo.com/ | Spanish (Spain) Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... |
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| http://sg.video.yahoo.com/ | English (Singapore) English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| http://ph.video.yahoo.com/ | English (Philippines) English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| http://malaysia.video.yahoo.com/ | English (Malaysia) English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| http://espanol.video.yahoo.com// | Spanish (Latin America) Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... |
External links
- Yahoo! Video (Official Homepage)
- Yahoo! Video Blog