Properties fall into three categories; Research and market places, media and communication and community (Forbes magazine, 2014). Search and Marketplace.Yahoo! Local and Yahoo! Searches are available free of charge to users and are typically the starting point for users to log in, navigate the web, and discover content. These Yahoo! services are designed to respond to Yahoo! users' information needs in search results pages that provide rich search results, organized and ranked based on relevance to the search query. Sponsored search results are a subset of full results that provide links to the websites of paying advertisers. Yahoo! develop and launch features such as direct search around search results. Other of these features include contextual search results, related topic suggestions, and site filters. Yahoo! offers its experiences and applications on different types of connected devices which can include PCs, tablets and mobile phones. Yahoo! local offers primarily local news (local news takes highest priority first) as well as news of events happening elsewhere, business listings, and related content such as user reviews and recommendations, deals, and events, all supported by Yahoo! Maps (Yahoo! Inc. website
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