Event · Advertising and business
Yahoo! picks Google as its default search engine (2000)
Yahoo! announced that Google would be its default provider of web search results, complementing its editor-built directory. Pages of Google results shown on Yahoo! became part of Yahoo!'s own advertising inventory.
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June 26, 2000
Yahoo!–Google search deal
Event · Advertising and business · Concluded
Dates
- June 26, 2000 Announcement · exact date [1]
What the sources say
Historical captures
No archived capture has been located for this record yet.
Sources
- Yahoo! Selects Google as its Default Search Engine Provider — Yahoo! and Google (joint press release), June 26, 2000. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
What still needs documenting
- Date Google results went live on Yahoo!
- End of the deal and which provider Google replaced
On GD
GD has followed Google since 2006. Search GD for “Yahoo” (in Portuguese)
How to cite
"Yahoo! picks Google as its default search engine (2000)", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/yahoo-escolhe-google-2000/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.
ID: yahoo-escolhe-google-2000 · Reviewed on November 2, 2026