Yahoo is an American web service provider used all around the world. Founded in January, in the year 1994. The headquarters of Yahoo is in Sunnyvale, California. The company named Yahoo Inc operates this Headquarters. This is 90 percent owned by the investment funds.
The manager of those investment funds is Apollo Global Management and the rest 10 percent is by Verizon Communications.
It offers us a web portal, and also search engine called Yahoo Search, and similar services. Those related services consist of My Yahoo!, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, and also its advertising platform Yahoo! Native.
Yahoo was first established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in the month of January 1994.
That was the early achievement in the early internet era of the 1990s. But in the late 2000s, Yahoo lost its usage. The reason for the loss of usage was that Yahoo lost its market share to Facebook Groups and also Google.
Gmail
Gmail is a free email service by Google. In 2019, Gmail had 1.5 billion active users all around the world.
A user of Gmail mostly accesses Gmail in a web browser or on the official mobile app account.
As it is provided by Google, therefore Google also supports the use of email clients via the POP and IMAP protocols.
When it was launched back in 2004, a storage capacity of one gigabyte per user was offered by Gmail. That is higher than the other competitors offered at that time.
As of today, the free email service comes with 15 gigabytes of storage. The users of Gmail can receive emails of up to 50 megabytes in size. It also includes attachments, they can also send emails up to 25 megabytes.
If you want to send larger files, you can insert files from Google Drive into the message. Gmail also has a search-oriented interface and an option “conversation view” identical to an Internet forum.
This service is eye-catching among the websites developers for its early adoption of Ajax.
How to unlink Gmail from Yahoo?
Well, if you want to unlink Gmail from your Yahoo account, it is quite easy to do so. Just follow these simple steps mentioned below:
- First, sign in to your My Yahoo ID.
- Then, put your mouse over the Setting icon on the email app.
- Now, Click on Remove.
- Then, click on Google Account Settings.
- Select Disconnect.
- Now, under the option, “Third-party apps” click on Yahoo.
- Click on Remove access.
- Lastly, click OK and you are all done.
