Anyone who knows the world of internet web portal giant certainly know this one. Maybe you want to know the history of Yahoo! was up and I'm going to try to review it in brief brief history of Yahoo in the Internet world. Yahoo! is a popular web portal operated by a company called Yahoo! Inc. .. Yahoo! was originally just a kind of bookmark (page guide book), the idea was started in April 1994, at which time the two alumni of Stanford University professor got a vacation when they go out of town for a great vacation. Engineering students David Filo and Jerry Yang have less work to do than surf the internet. They do not take long to compile a huge list of bookmarks, grouped by subject. Then they thought, why not put it on the web? They then worked to create a program to deal with the database, which can provide results online.
In April 1994, the bookmark was given
name "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was changed to Yahoo!, which comes from "Yet Another Hierarchical officious Oracle".
Filo and Yang chose the word tersbeut because they liked the general definition of the word, which comes from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude-strong-,-simple-unsophisticated, and uncouth-rough-).
Yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995. Since Yang and Filo realized the great potential possessed by their website is, finally, on March 1, 1995, Yahoo launched a legal entity such as most search engines on the web, Yahoo also diversified into web portals.
In the late 1990s, Yahoo!, MSN, Lycos, Excite and other Web portals experiencing rapid growth which causes each race web portal to extend the reach of their services so that Internet users longer layover on their web portal. The way they do is by acquiring other companies that can provide the service they want.
In March 1995, Yahoo was entered into business cooperation with the owner of Silicon Valley Venture capital institutions. Then, they worked with Sequa Capital, a company that has a reputation in the field of investments included Apple Computer, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems. They agreed to fund Yahoo with an initial investment of close to $ 2 million. Since the realization of the new company they have rapid growth potential, Jerry Yang and David began to build a management team. They recruited a veteran of Motorola and Stanford Engineering alumni named Tim Koogle as chief executive officer and a founder Jeff Mallet Novell's Division of Consumer WordPerpectsebagai chief operating officer.
They managed to save the second funding cycle in 1995 from investors Reuters Ltd.. and Softbank. Yahoo! launched a highly successful go public in April 1996 with the number of total employees 49 people. Today, Yahoo! Inc.. has become a leader of global communications via the Internet, commerce and media company that has become a brand service network of more than 232 million individuals each month in the virtual world. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leader guides the context of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach.
Yahoo! is a global Internet brand first to reach the biggest audience in cyberspace. The company is also building an online business services company that designs productivity and web for clients. Design services are included in the collaboration. Yahoo!, a customized solution for the enterprise; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management, and services and supplies website. Global network of web companies are included in the 25 world properties. With headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has also has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada, and the United States.
