Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, two Stanford University graduate students. Originally called "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web," it was a directory of websites organized into categories. Yahoo grew to become a major web portal and $11 billion business within four years. It provides various internet services worldwide including search, email, and online advertising.
3. 44 Years Old
Born: 1968
Birthplace: Taiwan
A former Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at
Stanford University, Yang and classmate David Filo
founded Yahoo in 1994 as a way of keeping track of
their personal interests on Internet.
they converted Yahoo to allow users to search the
Internet and to create customized lists of sites.
Yahoo developed into a major web portal and an $11
billion business within four years. Yahoo continues to
be among the top Internet directories and search
engines.
4. Yahoo is one of the most popular search engines
like that of Google.
It was founded in 1994 by Stanford University
graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Originally a website called "Jerry's Guide to the
World Wide Web," it was simply a directory of
other websites organized .
Yahoo provides internet services around the
world, including search engine, web
portal, Yahoo mail, directory services and more.
January, 2010, Yahoo held the world's largest
market share in online display advertising.
5. The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's
Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually
received a new moniker with the help of a
dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for
"Yet another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but
Filo and Yang insist they selected the name
because they liked the general definition of a
yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated and uncouth."
6. Can download and upload all
the document and picture.
Can chatting with all the people
in yahoo.
Can find map
8. Open source project managed by
yahoo team.
Contribute feature request and bug
report.
Make contribution to YUI that
involve in intellectual property.