Yahoo! facts for kids
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Yahoo! is a web portal and an internet content and service provider. It is known for its many products and services, such as their search engine, e-mail, instant messaging, and video, but also contents their products in news, weather forecasting, money and other information. Yahoo! makes money from advertisements in their services.
History and growth
Early history (1994–1999)
In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford University. In April 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!", for which the official backronym is "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general meaning, which comes from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated and uncouth". Its URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo. Yang describes their selection of the name as "We thought it fit well with what we were doing. It was irreverent. It was reflective of the Wild West nature of the Internet. A lot of people found it easy to remember, and besides, it's exactly what me and Jerry are.a couple of yahoos."
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Images for kids
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Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo
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Yahoo headquarters in 2001
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Yahoo sign at Times Square
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Map showing localized versions of Yahoo! web portals, as of 2008
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Protest against the mass surveillance by the NSA
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Yahoo! Kimo (Taiwan) Open Hack Day event in 2008
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PRISM, a clandestine surveillance program under which the NSA collects user data from companies like Yahoo.
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Yahoo's Bangalore office
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Yahoo sign with address at its headquarters
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