Two years before Google came out there was already Yahoo!. It was the first search engine on the world wide web. It has paved the way for other search engines to be conceived. Together they have changed the way we gather information and communicate. Those breakthroughs in the world of the Internet really have changed and become part of our lives.
Yahoo! was founded in 1994 by Stanford PhD candidates Jerry Yang and David Filo. They were both graduate students of electrical engineering during that time in Stanford. Two of the best search engine sites were conceived in Stanford University, I just noticed. Google was a research project in Stanford. To keep track of the websites that interest them best, the duo created a website called “David and Jerry's Guide To The World Wide Web” a directory of other websites organized in hierarchy. “David and Jerry's Guide To The World Wide Web was renamed Yahoo! In 1994. "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" is a backronym for Yahoo!. The yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995. Yahoo! has grown so rapidly in the 1990s and eventually became a web portal. During the dot come bubble, Yahoo! shares are relatively high priced. During the bubble burst, it depreciated but Yahoo! was one of those sites that survived unlike other that have stopped operating.
During its early years it has acquired properties and Yahoo! is now worth 12 plus billion dollars with an employee of 13, 000 across 25 countries it has been serving. Other Yahoo! services include Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo Maps, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Messenger and a lot more.
With the emergence of other famous and big websites on the web, Yahoo! remained a strong search engine portal and it has remained positive just like the emotion its name is so associated with.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!
http://pressroom.yahoo.net/pr/ycorp/overview.aspx
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