It serves as a directory for both novice and experienced Web users, providing a structured view of hundreds of thousands of websites and millions of pages. Later the name Yahoo was popularized as an bacronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle Filo and Yang decided to select the name Yahoo, because they liked the general definition of the word (which comes from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, where a Yahoo is a legendary being): rude, unsophisticated, uncouth. 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. David Filo and Jerry Yang co-created an Internet website called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web” which was renamed “Yahoo!” When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories, thus the core concept behind Yahoo was born. Eventually, Jerry and David’s lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. Thus the now ubiquitous web portal and a global brand Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a site, that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information.įilo and Yang started realization of his project in a campus trailer in February, 1994, and before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. As they didn’t manage to find such a tool, they decided to create their own. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University- Jerry Yang (born November 6, 1968, in Taipei, Taiwan) and David Filo (born April 20, 1966, in Wisconsin) were looking for a single place to find useful Web sites and for a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Yahoo! is an Internet platform that features a search engine and a directory of World Wide Web sites arranged by topic categories in a hierarchy.
It began as an essential collection of Yang and Filo’s favorite Websites, with features such as a search engine, an e-mail service, a directory, and a news section.Its founders are Jerry Yang and David Filo, the two electrical engineers. Yahoo! is an Internet portal that incorporates a search engine, in Johor, Malaysia.
Johor, Malaysia – Dec 11, 2013: Photo of Yahoo webpage on a monitor screen.