1. Stanford Student’s Jerry Yang
and David Filo first started Yahoo!
in February of 1994 to keep track
of their own interests online. They
named their project “Jerry’s Guide
to the World Wide Web.”
2. In April the name of Jerry’s
Guide to the World Wide Web was
changed to Yahoo, which is an
acronym for “Yet Another
Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”
3. Yang and Filo added the
exclamation point to the end of
Yahoo! because “Yahoo” was
already owned by a company that
produced BBQ sauce.
4. The owners of Yahoo
considered buying Google before
went public. However, at the time
Yahoo decided that a few billion
dollars was too much to pay to
buy out their competitor.
5. Yahoo’s email service, which
they purchased from Four11 in
1997, is still considered to be the
most popular email program in
America.
6. In 2006 Yahoo’s image search
gained criticism for displaying
sexually explicit images in their
results, even when the SafeSearch
was on. Less than a year later the
image search feature was shut
down and replaced with Yahoo’s
recently acquired Flickr photo
sharing community.
7. Yahoo currently owns and
operates over fifty different web
properties, most of which are
sites that gained popularity
before being acquired by Yahoo.
Some examples include Geocities,
Yahoo! Games, Del.icio.us, Flickr,
and Upcoming.org.
8. One of Yahoo’s highest priced
acquisitions was Broadcast.com,
which they paid a reported $5.7
billion for. On the other hand,
their cheapest acquisition was
their purchase of Net Controls for
slightly over $1 million in 1997.
9. In March of 2005 Yahoo
celebrated it’s 10 year anniversary
by giving away free Baskin Robins
ice cream coupons to all of their
users.
10. Yahoo began as a project
created by two individuals and
has grown to employ estimated
13,000 full time individuals.
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