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1. • • The word "Yahoo" had previously been trademarked for barbecue sauce, knives (by EBSCO Industries) and human propelled watercraft (by Old Town Canoe Co.). Therefore, in order to get control of the trademark, Yang and Filo added the exclamation mark to the name.
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   Why did Jerry Yang change the name 'Yahoo'?

   • In April 1994 Jerry Yang and David Filo, Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford, changed the name of "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" to "Yahoo!", for which the official expansion was "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".

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   Why did Yang and Filo start Yahoo?

   • Yang and Filo compiled a robust directory of more than 2,000 sites by September 1994 and received 50,000 searches a day, according to the Internet History Podcast. By the end of 1994, they received a million hits. As it grew, the two knew they needed a better name. They settled on Yahoo!, which stood for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”

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   Who created Yahoo?

   • Yahoo! was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates at Stanford University 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.

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   Who are Jerry Yang & David Filo?

   • In the early days of the internet, two Stanford University graduate students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, embarked on a journey that would forever change the digital landscape. Their creation, Yahoo, not only became a pioneering force in the online world but also gave rise to one of the most intriguing and memorable company names in history.

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   Jun 21, 2024 · Filo or Yang would find sites and place them in layers of subcategories. The internet was relatively sparse in the early days, but new websites were popping up each day. The guide...

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   When Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed to Yahoo! in 1994, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude ...

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   Sep 1, 2024 · Back in 1994, the internet was still in its infancy, with only a handful of websites and limited access for the general public. At that time, Jerry Yang and David Filo were pursuing their Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

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   Mar 21, 2018 · In July 2016, 22 years after it began as a hobby for Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo agreed to sell its core operating business to Verizon in what Forbes writer...

7. www.internethistorypodcast.com › 2015 › 03On the 20th Anniversary – The History of Yahoo’s Founding

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   Mar 1, 2015 · Undeterred, Yang and Filo incorporated Yahoo on March 2, 1995, and Yang began circulating a scratched-together business plan, but failed to impress the VC’s who were sniffing around. Even a March 1995 feature story in Newsweek didn’t overcome the skepticism.

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8. thehistory.tech › history-of-yahooYahoo’s Journey: From Stanford Dorm Room to Internet Icon

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   In 1994, two Stanford graduate students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, began a modest quest to catalog their favorite websites. Their creation, initially christened “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” soon underwent a name change, morphing into the more succinct and memorable “Yahoo.”

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   Jan 18, 1995 · Yahoo! is Founded. In April 1994 Jerry Yang and David Filo, Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford, changed the name of "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" to "Yahoo!", for which the official expansion was "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".