Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Yahoo

The 20 closest web portal alternatives to Yahoo, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Yahoo? The closest matches are Neocities, USA Today and United States Department of State. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Yahoo

Yahoo geocities.com

Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos

Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!

Top 10K · #1,880 English 3 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Yahoo

Summary by Claude

The geocities.com domain, formerly a free personal web hosting service shut down in 2009, now redirects to the Yahoo homepage. That page offers news headlines, email, finance, sports scores, weather and search.

Who it’s for
General internet users
Business model
Advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Yahoo’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

TIMEChronMental FlossRamblerNASAGoogleVoxUSA TodayNeocities

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Yahoo

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Yahoo, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Neocities neocities.org Top 10K English

    Neocities: Create your own free website!

    Create and surf awesome websites for free.

  2. 02
    USA Today usatoday.com Top 1K English

    Latest World & National News & Headlines - USATODAY.com

    USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos.

  3. 03
    United States Department of State state.gov Top 1K English

    Technical Difficulties

    executive department of the U.S. federal government

  4. 04
    Vox vox.com Top 10K English

    Vox

    Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.

  5. 05
    Google google.com Top 100 German

    Google

    search engine by Google LLC

  6. 06
    NASA nasa.gov Top 1K English

    NASA

    NASA.gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.

  7. 07
    Rambler rambler.ru Top 10K Russian

    Рамблер — медийный портал: новости России и мира, почта, поиск, погода

    Рамблер — последние новости сегодня, развлекательные и коммуникационные сервисы: поиск информации в интернете, электронная почта, гороскопы, прогноз погоды, телепрограмма

  8. 08
    Seznam seznam.cz Top 1K Czech

    Seznam – najdu tam, co neznám

    Nejnavštěvovanější český internetový portál nabízející vyhledávač, e-mail, aktuální zprávy, předpověď počasí a odkazy, které se mohou hodit.

  9. 09
    Patch patch.com Top 10K English

    Patch - Everything Local: Breaking News, Events, Discussions

    The best breaking news, stories, and events from the Patch network of local news sites

  10. 10
    Libero libero.it Top 10K Italian

    Libero: Mail, Ricerca e News con aggiornamento quotidiano

    Entra su Libero.it: Mail e Email PEC, Login, le Ultime Notizie con aggiornamento quotidiano, Video, Motore di Ricerca e tanto altro

  11. 11
    Mental Floss mentalfloss.com Top 10K English

    Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More

    Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.

  12. 12
    SFGATE sfgate.com Top 10K English

    SFGATE: San Francisco Bay Area News, Sports, Culture, Travel, Food, California Parks

    Today's San Francisco Bay Area news, plus the latest in sports, weather, food, politics, culture, tech, Tahoe and national parks.

  13. 13
    Chron chron.com Top 10K English

    Chron: Texas News, Weather, Food, Culture, Sports, College

    Chron, a trusted Texas news source since 2012, delivers the latest weather, culture, food and sports news about Houston, the Gulf Coast, North Texas and beyond.

  14. 14
    The Atlantic theatlantic.com Top 10K English

    Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic

    magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.

  15. 15
    Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English

    Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas

    Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.

  16. 16
    Centrum.cz centrum.cz Top 10K Czech

    Centrum.cz: Fandíme dobrému obsahu

    Centrum.cz je český internetový portál nabízející e-mail, aktuální zpravodajství, počasí a další zajímavé služby.

  17. 17
    mail.com Top 10K English

    Free email accounts | Register today at mail.com

    Email how it is supposed to be: ✔ Free, simple and secure ✔ Manage multiple mail accounts in one place, from any device ✔ Sign up today!

  18. 18
    National Geographic nationalgeographic.com Top 10K English

    National Geographic

    Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.

  19. 19
    HowStuffWorks howstuffworks.com Top 10K English

    American media company

  20. 20
    TIME time.com Top 1K English

    TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

    Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to geocities.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Yahoo uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

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Technology

What Yahoo is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

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