20 Facts about Yahoo You Must Know

1. Stanford Student’s Jerry Yang and David Filo first started Yahoo! in February of 1994 to keep track of their own interests online. They named their project “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web.”

The most searched for phrase in this month Global search were Reverse Phone Lookup and Mental Maths Tricks and How Children Develops 2. Yahoo! stocks  highest closing was at $118.75 a share on 3 January 2000. The Dot Com Bubble   brought Yahoo stock to  all-time low of $8.11.

3. In April the name of Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web was changed to Yahoo, which is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”

4. On 2008, Yahoo! layed off  apprx 2600 around the world  due to the economic downturn

5. On November 30, 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo!'s search business for $20 billion.


6. Yang and Filo added the exclamation point to the end of Yahoo! because “Yahoo” was already owned by a company that produced BBQ sauce.

7. The owners of Yahoo considered buying Google before went public. However, at the time Yahoo decided that a few billion dollars was too much to pay to buy out their competitor.

8. On July 29, 2009, a 10 year deal with Microsoft  was done  which gave microsoft  full laccess to Yahoo!'s search  for its search engine, Bing

9. Yahoo! launched its new Internet advertisement sales system on February 5, 2007, called Panama.which  allows advertisers to bid for search terms.

10. Yahoo! Search BOSS is a service that allows developers to build search applications based on Yahoo!'s search technology.

11. Yahoo’s email service, which they purchased from Four11 in 1997, is still considered to be the most popular email program in America.

12. In 2006 Yahoo’s image search gained criticism for displaying sexually explicit images in their results, even when the SafeSearch was on. Less than a year later the image search feature was shut down and replaced with Yahoo’s recently acquired Flickr photo sharing community.

13. Yahoo! Koprol is a Indonesian social networking based on location like GPS without any GPS devices

14. Yahoo! Meme is a beta social service, similar to the popular social networking sites Twitter and Jaiku.


15.Yahoo! Next is an incubation ground for future Yahoo! technologies currently in their beta testing phase, similar to Google Labs.

16.Yahoo currently owns and operates over fifty different web properties, most of which are sites that gained popularity before being acquired by Yahoo. Some examples include Geocities, Yahoo! Games, Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Upcoming.org.

17. One of Yahoo’s highest priced acquisitions was Broadcast.com, which they paid a reported $5.7 billion for. On the other hand, their cheapest acquisition was their purchase of Net Controls for slightly over $1 million in 1997.

18. In March of 2005 Yahoo celebrated it’s 10 year anniversary by giving away free Baskin Robins ice cream coupons to all of their users.

19. Yahoo began as a project created by two individuals and has grown to employ estimated 13,000 full time individuals.

20. Y!Connect enables individuals to leave comments in online publication boards by using their Yahoo ID.


Services that has been discontinued by Yahoo

1. 1. Bix / 
2. 2blo.gs 
3. 2 Kelkoo
4. 2. Jumpcut.com
5. 3. Yahoo! 360°
6. 4. Yahoo! Auctions
7. 5. Yahoo! Gallery
8. 6. Yahoo! Geocities
9. 7. Yahoo! GeoCities
10. 8. Yahoo! Greetings
11. 9. Yahoo! HotJobs
12. 10. Yahoo! Kickstart
13. 11. Yahoo! Mash
14. 12. Yahoo! Photos
15. 13. Yahoo! Briefcase
16. 14. Yahoo! Live
17. 15. Yahoo! Podcasts
18. 16. Yahoo! Tech
19. 17. Rocketmail