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Yahoo! was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates at Stanford University [1] when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
Mar 21, 2018 · By early 1998, Yahoo had added email, shopping, classifieds, personals, games, travel, weather, maps, people search, celebrity chats, a kid-oriented version called Yahooligans, and an online...
Mar 1, 2015 · As early as June of 1995, Jerry Yang declared that Yahoo would become, “The first great Internet brand.”. With millions of users already familiar with Yahoo and tens of millions of “newbies” on their way, becoming the first Internet brand would be invaluable.
Yahoo! (/ ˈ j ɑː h uː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications.
January 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web " while studying at Stanford University. [1] March 1994: "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" is renamed " Yahoo! ." [2]
May 21, 2018 · David Filo co-founded Yahoo! Inc. with fellow Stanford University doctoral student Jerry Yang in March of 1995. Initially a search tool for the World Wide Web, Yahoo! grew into the leading Internet portal with more than 100 million surfers using the site every month by the year 2000.
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Jan 18, 1995 · Yahoo! is Founded. In April 1994 Jerry Yang and David Filo, Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford, changed the name of "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" to "Yahoo!", for which the official expansion was "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".
