Yahoo!

is an Internet portal that

incorporates a search
engine and a directory of
World Wide Web sites
organized in a hierarchy
of topic categories..
 As a directory, it provide
both new and seasoned
Web users the reassurance
of a structured view of
hundreds of thousands of
Web sites and millions of
Web pages.
It also provides one
of the best ways to
search the Web for a
given topic. Since
Yahoo is associated
with the most popular
Web search sites, if a
search argument
doesn't lead to a
Yahoo topic page, it
will
still lead to results
from the six or seven
popular search engine
sites Yahoo links to.
Yahoo was founded
by
JerryYang
and
David Filo
JERRY YANG:
DAVID FILO:
 Yahoo incorporated
on March 2,
1995.Yahoo was one
of the pioneers of the
early internet era in
the 1990s.
 Marissa Mayer, a
former Google
executive, served as
CEO and President of
Yahoo until June
2017.
MARISSA
MAYER :
Yahoo! was
Started at
Stanford University.
STANFORD
UNIVERSITY:
It was founded in
January 1994 by Jerry
Yang and David Filo,
who were ".
.
Electrical Engineering
graduate students
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.
In April 1994, Jerry and
David's Guide to the
World Wide Web was
renamed "Yahoo!". The
yahoo.com domain
was created on
January 18, 1995.
Yahoo! grew rapidly
throughout the 1990s
and diversified into
a web portal, followed
by numerous high-
profile acquisitions.
 The company's stock price
skyrocketed during the dot-
com bubble and closed at an
all-time high of US$118.75 in
2000
• ] 2000;however, after
the dot-com bubble
burst, it reached an all-
time low of US$8.11 in
2001.
Carol Bartz replaced
co-founder Jerry Yang
as CEO in January
2009,but was fired by
the board of directors in
September 2011;
CORAL BARTZ:
 Former Paypal
president Scott
Thompson became CEO
in January 2012 and
after he resigned was
replaced by Ross
Levinsohn
SCOTT
THOMPSON:
 ROSS
LEVINSOHN:
 as the company's
interim CEO on May 13,
2012. On July 16, former
Google executive
Marissa Mayer, became
the CEO of the
company
MARISSA MAYER:
 YAHOO
•Yahoo! is short
for "Yet Another
Hierarchical
Officious Oracle"
•Yahoo is an
Internet portal that
incorporates a search
engine and a directory
of World Wide Web
sites
 JERRY YANG
:

Yang founded Yahoo! in

1994, served as CEO
from 2007 to 2009. He
left Yahoo! in 2012. "
 DAVID FILO:
February 1994, he
co- created with Jerry
Yang an Internet
website called "Jerry and
David's Guide to the World
Wide Web",
It Yahoo! became very
popular, and Filo and
Yang realized the
business potential and
co-founded Yahoo! Inc.
 On July 16, 2012,
Mayerwas
appointedpresident and
CEO of Yahoo!, effective
the following day. She is
also a member of the
company's board of
directors.
 To simplify the
bureaucratic process
and "make the culture
the best version of
itself", Mayer
launched a new online
program called PB&J
The "yahoo.com" domain was
created on January 18, 1995.
The word "yahoo" is a
backronym for "Yet Another
Hierarchically Organized
Oracle" or "Yet Another
Hierarchical Officious
Oracle".
 Yahoo
Founders:
Jerry Yang
David Filo
Yahoo! is a web services
provider, wholly owned
by Verizon
Communications through
Oath Inc.and headquartered
in Sunnyvale, California.
Yahoo started
in Stanford
University .
Carol Ann Bartz is an
American business
executive, the former
president and CEO of
the internet services
company Yahoo.