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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation incorporate and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, in Silicon Valley and a global Internet services company. It provides a range of products and services including a Web portal, a search engine, the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and posting. It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 1, 1995.

Trivia about yahoo!

  • Engineers Jerry Yang & David Filo chose this name for their company in 1994; it's what each considered himself
  • You'll hear this web search site's name yodeled if you click the exclamation mark on the home page
  • It won't be hard to look it up:YHOO
  • More than 345 million individuals each month hit this website
  • Give a shout out to Carol Bartz, CEO of this Internet company & the 12th most powerful woman on the list
  • "Do You" use this top web directory, also one of the oldest?
  • This web site started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"
  • Yeehaw! It's the world's most popular Internet directory
  • Don't kill the messenger, download it at this search site with an exclamation point in its name
  • One of a race of brutes in "Gulliver's Travels", it's now the name of a famous internet directory
  • Yodel Anecdotal is the name of this website's corporate blog
  • This search site was named by its creators from a dictionary definition: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth"
  • In 2008 Carl Icahn bought millions of shares in this Internet company with an exclamation point in its name
  • As head of this Internet company, Terry Semel has made more than $230 million in only 4 years
  • Carol Bartz made a deal for Microsoft to power the searches on this engine, where she's CEO
  • Its website has been called the first large-scale directory of the Internet
  • This website was originally "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"

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