Basically Yahoo! practice a variety of business models and revenue models for e-commerce and can be categorised as a ‘Click and Mortar’ e-business organisation which combines an online and offline presence. Over the years, Yahoo have practice various business/ revenue models such as follows:
1. Advertising model - e.g. advert placement services
2. Merchant model
3. On-demand model
4. Subscription model - e.g. Mail.yahoo.com
5. On-demand model
6. Informediary model
7. Community model - e.g. Answers.yahoo.com
8. Brokerage model
9. Intermediary model
Yahoo! is more popularly known as a portal site with its directory of websites, a search engine, or both. Yahoo! also offers web based e-mail, news, forums, and other service to entice Internet users to use the portal website as their main point of entry.
Yahoo! is sometimes view as E-marketplace - an online space where buyer(s) and seller(s) come together as a business community to find each other for the purposes of providing commercial information, and conducting business transactions.
Yahoo! is also an ASP (Application Service Provider).
2006-07-18 14:57:58
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answered by dranagar 5
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Is yahoo is an example of E-Commerce business. Yahoo provides many services like advertising. In this user can search anything he/she wants.
2015-02-13 17:06:31
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answered by Arun 2
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Yes, one of them. Yahoo can provide webhosting and fe w other chargeable services like advertisement space. Yahoo! Search also chargeable. You can click here to learn more on e-business or e-commerce: http://www.website.ws/powercontrol and all the best to you. If any further information required, u can email me.
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2006-07-10 20:56:47
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, Very Much.
2006-07-10 20:57:20
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answered by r_v_kale 2
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