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Search Engines
Website search engines allow us to find the content we're looking for on websites around the world. Questions about search engines and web search techniques belong here.
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I do not know why created Yahoo, but i believe that it was 2 people at first creating a site to track their days on. If you google History of Yahoo then you should find it.
In January 1994, Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website named "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web." Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." The name can also be a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".[4] Its URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.[5]
By the end of 1994, Yahoo had already received one million hits. Yang and Filo realized their website had massive business potential, and on 1 March 1995, Yahoo was incorporated.[6] On 12 April 1996, Yahoo had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 million dollars, by selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each.
"Yahoo" had already been trademarked for barbecue sauce, knives (by EBSCO Industries) and human propelled watercraft (by Old Town Canoe Co.). Therefore, in order to get the trademark, Yang and Filo added the exclamation mark to the name.[7] However, the exclamation mark is often omitted when referring to Yahoo.
[edit] Growth (1997-1999)
Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo diversified into a Web portal. In the late 1990s, Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, Excite and other Web portals were growing rapidly. Web portal providers rushed to acquire companies to expand their range of services, in the hope of increasing the time a user stays at the portal.
On 8 March 1997, Yahoo acquired online communications company Four11. Four11's webmail service, Rocketmail, became Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo also acquired ClassicGames.com and turned it into Yahoo! Games. Yahoo then acquired direct marketing company Yoyodyne Entertainment, Inc. on 12 October 1998.[8] On 28 January 1999, Yahoo acquired web hosting provider GeoCities. Another company Yahoo acquired was eGroups, which became Yahoo! Groups after the acquisition on 28 June 2000. Yahoo also launched Yahoo! Messenger on 21 July 1999.
When acquiring companies, Yahoo often changed the relevant terms of service. For example, they claimed intellectual property rights for content on their servers, unlike the companies they acquired. As a result, many of the acquisitions were controversial and unpopular with users of the existing services.
Source(s):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YahooHow do you get your account back at Yahoo if you haven't used it in three years?
Accounts are disabled after certain amount of inactivity, usually as little as 90 days. It reduces the cost of operating the free service by eliminating disk space.
Is there a true free people finder site?
You can get non-sensitive information online about different people without paying a single cent. There are several people search services out there that offer this kind of service. It really depends on the kind of information you require.
Can you find out who opened a Yahoo email account?
no not really you have to think if you told anyone your password if so they might have told someone else. so really just get a AK47 and bust em
What was the market value of Yahoo in 1998?
I do not know but i do know that google was worth 8 cents in 1992 I do not know but i do know that google was worth 8 cents in 1992
How do you sell Gone With the Wind collectibles?
Since my honest and helpful answer keeps getting edited, I will just delete it all. I wasn't aware there was a 'wiki.police'. So much for unbiased free speech!
Got this email is it spam Yahoo Account Warning Verify Your Yahoo Account To Avoid De-Activation?
Contact yahoo to make sure its legit if it is not block the addressee
How do you save your Yahoo contacts onto a different file on your computer?
If you are referring to contacts in your yahoo mail, in mail select addresses, to the right of page select import/export, scroll down to export and selact any of the choices most email, pims or other contact managers recognize the yahoo csv even excel or other spredsheet program.
How do I remain invisible on messenger when I sign into Yahoo email?
you can not do that in the new version of yahoo. so better don't use it.
How do you know last login details of yahoo messenger?
One can check the last login details of Yahoo Messenger by looking in the logs. One must first go to settings, then into the logs, click logs and it should show the last login details.
Who were the yahoo's in Gulliver's Travels?
Swift , in part 4,meant by the yahoos the human kind in general and the English people in particular. In chapter 5 of the same part , after Gulliver had told his master about the art of war in his country as well as in Europe , his master said ,''whoever understood the nature of Yahoos might easily believe it possible for so vile an animal , to be capable of every action I [Gulliver] had named.''
How would you disconnect an account from Yahoo?
Click on Settings in the my page menu and then click on "Disconnect your account" under the option connected accounts.
How do you save a search engine?
it depends on waht your using
ipod touch go on internet try opening a menu when your on thedearch engine you want then press savve i think....
What is a categorical search engine?
For example of a categorical search is: The string "BAT" in a search engine, the results that I would get would most probably be linked to the cricket bat, the animal bat, the company BAT and so on. But, what if the user wants only a certain kind of result and not the other. In this case we need to differentiate between different categories and that is the sole purpose of the categorical search engine. To do this we need to divide the entire web into certain number of categories and then provide the user with the power to search within a particular category.
I have came across the same problem just go back to the old version.
How might a metasearch engien like cactisearch be helpful than a regular search engien?
It might be different because they have different meanings
How can you be more specific when you want to find something on the web?
depends on what you are trying to find. Think of ways on how you can narrow your search
