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History of Yahoo! Yahoo! started at Stanford University. [1] It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates 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 ...
The word "yahoo" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of Gulliver's Travels and has since entered the English language more broadly. Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, "a brute in human form," resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver.
Yandex LLC (Russian: Яндекс, romanized: Yandeks, IPA:) is a Russian multinational technology company providing Internet-related products and services, including an Internet search engine called Yandex Search, launched in 1997, information services, e-commerce, transportation, maps and navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising.
List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo! Yahoo! is a computer software and web search engine company founded on March 1, 1995. [1] The company is a public corporation and its headquarters is located in Sunnyvale, California. [2] It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994. [3]
Movies. Yahoo! Yahoo! Movies (formerly Upcoming Movies ), provided by the Yahoo! network, was home to a large collection of information on movies, past and new releases, trailers and clips, box office information, and showtimes and movie theater information. Yahoo! Movies also included red carpet photos, actor galleries, and production stills.
Marissa Mayer. Marissa Ann Mayer ( / ˈmaɪ.ər /; born May 30, 1975) [4] is an American business executive and investor who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017. She was a long-time executive, usability leader and key spokesperson for Google (employee No. 20).
Yahoo! Music was a brand under which Yahoo! provided music services including Internet radio , a digital music store , music streaming service , media player software , and original programming .
Yahweh [a] was an ancient Levantine deity, and national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah. [4] Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, [5] scholars generally contend that Yahweh is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, [6] and later with Canaan.