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Yahooligans!
| Website | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Yahooligans! |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Yahoo! |
| Dates: | April 25, 1996[1] - April 30, 2013 |
| Type: | Educational, Entertainment |
| Fandom: | multifandom |
| URL: | http://kids.yahoo.co.jp/ |
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Yahooligans! was the English version—formerly available until December 2006—of the Yahoo! Kids (known as Yahoo!きっず in Japan) a public web portal provided by Yahoo! Japan to find age appropriate online content for children between the ages of 4 and 12.
Yahoo! Kids was discontinued in English on April 30, 2013 and Korean earlier in the year, allowing the company to redirect its resources to mobile applications.
History
A very special search site for children is Yahooligans which provides a safe environment including a search engine especially designed for children ages 8 to 14. Here is a place for even the very young to experience the web at its best.— Susan Wehe of the Seguin Gazette on August 4, 1996[2]
Yahoo! Kids, originally known as Yahooligans!,[3] was founded in March 1996 by Yahoo! to provide children with a venue to find appropriate, safe Internet content.[4] The website was the oldest online search directory for children.[5][6][7] The website's editors stated that Yahoo! Kids was "cool, goofy, fascinating, fun, hysterical, philosophical, surprising, sedate, silly, seismic, popular, obscured, useful, and interesting".[5] In October 1999, The New York Times reporter Michelle Slatalla noted that Yahooligans! was a "heavily trafficked site", with 463,000 visitors accessing the website in August 1999.[8] In October 1999, the website received an Alexa Internet rank of 991 out of 22 million content websites.[9]
Notes
References
- ^ "Yahoo! Inc. – Company Timeline". Wayback Machine. 2008-07-13. Archived from the original on 2008-07-13. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
- ^ Wehe, Susan (1996-08-04). "Internet Beat: Search tools help new Internet users learn ropes". Seguin Gazette. p. 11. Archived from the original on 2014-08-17. Retrieved 2014-08-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Gunn, Holly (2007-07-01). "Searching the Web with Search Engines for Children" (PDF). Teacher Librarian. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-10-25. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ DeMott, Rick (2004-03-19). "DIC Toons Online With Yahoo!". Animation World Network. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Pack, Thomas (2005-12-20). "Search Sites for Your Kids". [giqyrwfkua fnrsskbfjncs uilanhwj4limklsnrk kjnjlk[Information Today, Inc.]] Archived from the original on 2014-08-17. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
- ^ Sullivan, Danny (2005-04-04). "Kids Search Engines". Search Engine Watch. Archived from the original on 2010-10-25. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ Whitley & Goodwin 2006, p. xii
- ^ Slatalla, Michelle (1999-10-07). "On-Line Help for Inquiring Young Minds". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2010-10-25. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ Koenig, David (1999-10-03). "Mom runs Internet site from home". The Daily News. Associated Press. p. 26. Archived from the original on 2014-08-17. Retrieved 2014-08-17 – via Newspapers.com.
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