时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:世界名牌博览


英语课
雅虎(Yahoo!,NASDAQ:YHOO)是美国著名的互联网门户网站,也是20世纪末互联网奇迹的创造者之一。其服务包括搜索引擎、电邮、新闻等,业务遍及24个国家和地区,为全球超过5亿的独立用户提供多元化的网络服务。同时也是一家全球性的因特网通讯、商贸及媒体公司。
雅虎是全球第一家提供因特网导航服务的网站,总部设在美国加州圣克拉克市,在欧洲、亚太区、拉丁美洲、加拿大及美国均设有办事处。
雅虎是最老的“分类目录”搜索数据库,也是最重要的搜索服务网站之一[1]  ,在全部互联网搜索应用中所占份额达36%左右。所收录的网站全部被人工编辑按照类目分类。其数据库中的注册网站无论是在形式上还是内容上质量都非常高。2003年3月,雅虎完成对Inktomi的收购,成为Google的主要竞争对手之一。
雅虎有英、中 、日、韩、法、德、意、西班牙、丹麦等 12种语言版本,各版本的内容互不相同。提供目录、网站及全文检索功能。目录分类比较合理,层次深,类目设置好,网站提要严格清楚,网站收录丰富,检索结果精确度较高。[2] 
2015年雅虎已成为“全球第三大移动广告公司”。[3] 
2016年7月25日,美国电信巨头Verizon(威瑞森)以48亿美元收购雅虎核心资产
 

Yahoo! is one of the biggest Internet service companies in the world. It is one of the top search engines and e-mail providers. Yahoo! was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo. They originally named it "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but changed it to "Yahoo!" Officially, ‘Yahoo’ means "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle 1". They chose the word because it has a generally understood meaning worldwide. The company has assets 2 valued at $15 billion and employs 15,000 people around the world. The Yahoo! website says the company is very customer focused: “We respect our customers above all else and never forget that they come to us by choice…We listen and respond to our customers and seek to exceed 3 their expectations.”
 


1 oracle
n.神谕,神谕处,预言
  • In times of difficulty,she pray for an oracle to guide her.在困难的时候,她祈祷神谕来指引她。
  • It is a kind of oracle that often foretells things most important.它是一种内生性神谕,常常能预言最重要的事情。
2 assets
n.财产;资产
  • We capitalized our assets to avoid bankruptcy.我们把资产转作资金以避免破产。
3 exceed
vt.超过,胜过,越出
  • The expenses shall not exceed 200 yuan.费用以200元为限。
  • Exports yearly exceed imports.输出每年超过输入。
学英语单词
5'-Deoxyadenosyl-B12
acromphalus
active money
ADCOM
adhesive ability
adiactinic
african harrier-hawk
airscrew shaft
Al Ghurdaqah
Alafors
allgauer alpen
arrested gambler
astronomical unit (a.u.)
authorised pressure
bioarchitecture
Bol'shemurashkinskiy Rayon
boliviano
Campylotropis harmsii
cathode-ray tube memory
chelate paper
climbed down
clongenic
conflating
consolute
contact (thermal) resistance
countercurrent contact
ctrl.
daily operating cost
dict.
downward enrichment
dtying
electronic computing units
emitrichie
energy thermal gradients
evelyne
exomphalos hernia
ferritic-pearlitic
fibre-optic transmission systems
Financial distress costs
fly-wheel magneto
Gartenstadt
gastrick
gelperin
girnel
Gutondwa
HACHT
Heilong
hemlock forest
horse thieves
ice foot
improper maximum
in dubio
inorganic material bushing
irregularity in cross level
ishiadic foramen
jnco
juggle black and white
Jupiter's exploration
key-display card
Knox, Philander Chase
L-xylulose
landlubber
Leinsterman
lock lifter
LVHX
management of certificates
Mare Foecunditatis basalt
men and boys
millvoltmeter
modeling wax
Muwahhidism
negotiable security
neocheiropteris phyllomanes ching
nombreux
non-holonomic system
parallelogrammic
paraspeckle
phosphorus poisoning
plane cyclic curve
Powder River
pre-paraptera
Primula aurantiaca
provedores
RAMAC
rhaponticine
right-shift register
roundhouse
satellitium
scrap for cooling
sheaffer
Skärblacka
steam/liquid type break
study on agrobiology
syncyanin
terrassa
three-level switch
transplace
vent stem
ventricular tachycardias
weasellike
Wiegner sedimentation tube
zonula occludens