Yahoo! Japan (ヤフー, Yafū) is a Japanese web portal. It was the most-visited website in Japan in October 2018, and among the top 50 worldwide. In 2020, Yahoo! Japan was the 4th most visited website in Japan and contains many services outside search, including auctions, weather, and mapping services. In terms of use as a search engine, however, it has never surpassed Google. The company is the second largest search engine used in Japan as of July 2021, with a market share of 19% behind Google's 77%. Yahoo! and SoftBank formed Yahoo! Japan in January 1996 to establish the first web portal in Japan. Yahoo! Japan went live on April 1, 1996. Yahoo! Japan was listed on JASDAQ in November 1997. In January 2000, it became the first stock in Japanese history to trade for more than ¥100 million per share. The company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 2003 and became part of the Nikkei 225 stock market index in 2005. More information...
According to PR-model, news.yahoo.co.jp is ranked 641st in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 53rd in Japanese Wikipedia.
The website is placed before sports.ru and after telegraphindia.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
