- Yahoo is an acronym which means for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”
- Sometimes, the logo is abbreviated with Y!
- The owners of Yahoo considered buying Google before this company went public.
- Yahoo! Inc. was founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.
- In April 1994, "David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!".
- Yahoo’s email service, is still considered to be the most popular email program in the United States.
- As of January, 2010, Yahoo held the world's largest market share in online display advertising.
- Yahoo! Meme is a beta social service, similar to the popular social networking sites Twitter and Jaiku.
- Yahoo Inc. currently owns and operates over 50 different web properties: some examples include Yahoo! Del.icio.us, Games, Flickr, and Upcoming.org.
- Yahoo! is available in over twenty languages, including English.
- In March of 2010 Yahoo celebrated it’s fifteen year anniversary.
- Yahoo! headquarters: Sunnyvale, California.
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