Article: No. 7 Yahoo! Popular site lets marketers cherry-pick their audience.

Byline: S.C.

Yahoo! launched itself into the public consciousness by offering free e-mail for life. It was a brilliant move for a site that now generates more than 100 million unique visitors every month and has evolved into a leading venue for both consumer and b-to-b marketers, as its recent financial performance will attest. The company reached $5.3 billion in revenue last year, up 47% over 2004.

Today of course, Yahoo! offers much more than e-mail. The site is both a portal and a search engine, among other things. As a portal, it offers users the ability to customize information. In many ways it has become a simulacrum of the daily newspaper, ...

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