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THE HISTORY OF YAHOO

In 1994 Yahoo was founded by two PHD students of electrical engineering at Stanford University David Filo and Jerry Young. They were co-founders of Yahoo. While at Stanford they both were spending too much time on the search of their favorite links URL, and web addresses to find the specific site they wanted. So to reduce their search time, Filo and David had decided to break up their list of websites into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories…and the core concept behind Yahoo was born. In 1994 Filo and David Published their first website directory “ Jerry Guide to the World Wide Web” which was later renamed as “Yahoo” They selected the name because they liked the Yahoo general definition, “ rude, unsophisticated, uncouth”. Yahoo is the short for “Yet another hierarchical officious oracle”. Yahoo became famous as the first search engine of 1990’s and its internet directory was first of its kind......


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