yahoo! is an american multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is widely known for its web portal , search engine yahoo!search, and
related services, including Yahoo!
Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo!
Finance, Yahoo!
Groups, Yahoo!
Answers, advertising, online
mapping, video
sharing, fantasy
sports and
is one of the most popular sites in the United States.
According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo! websites
every month. Yahoo! itself claims it attracts "more than half a
billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages
Yahoo! was started in a
Stanford University campus trailer.
It was founded in January
1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were Electrical Engineering graduate
students 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. In April 1994, Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed
"Yahoo!"
No comments:
Post a Comment