Yahoo

Once upon a time, the Internet was Yahoo, and Yahoo was the Internet. Seriously, Yahoo was the most popular destination back in the late 1990s because it launched the first successful internet search engine in 1994 and added online portals to its domain.

So, at the height of Yahoo's fame and power in 1997, two PhDs. Stanford students offered Yahoo to sell its PageRank algorithm for $1 million to improve its search services. Yahoo refused, but the Page Rank algorithm was so successful that Yahoo began using it as its search engine by 2000. That system was Google.

About three years later, Yahoo offered to buy Google for $3 billion, Google responded with a request for $5 billion, and for the second time Yahoo refused to buy Google. Then, over the years, the company gradually gave way to the search industry.

In '44, Microsoft offered to buy the entire Yahoo for $2 billion. But Yahoo refused. However, in 2016, Verizon bought the entire company for just $4.8 billion. Meanwhile, Google is currently worth more than $1.6 trillion.

The moral of this story is that today, searching on Yahoo doesn't yield much, except that you still maintain the @yahoo email address or like to use the portal. Secondly, tech firms are best run by techies.

Features: Fallen web Giant, 2.5 market share%

Cons: It has lost relevance

Website: yahoo.com