Yahoo! was founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang on February 1994 as a way to track their personal interests on the internet. Their list eventually became to big so they divided it into categories and subcategories....Yahoo! was born. The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new name with the help of a dictionary.

Yahoo!, What Does It Mean?

The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

Yahoo! celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors. With their success the two guys decided to venture into business by talking with Sequoia Capital. After reviewing their site and its potential they agreed to fund Yahoo! in April 1995 with an investment of $2 million.

Below we have complied images of Yahoo! throughout the years. Yahoo! has went through many changes unlike the Google page. They will again go through another major layout change, you can already see this change if you upgrade your homepage. If you wait they will automatically replace the homepage November 11, 2009 and you can see the new layout.

Images 1996 - Present

Circa 1996

Circa 1997

Circa 2000

Circa 2002

Circa 2005

2007 - Present

Conclusion

Yahoo is one of the oldest, most well known search engines of the internet. Without them we would not have a Google and the internet would be much harder to navigate. Thank you Yahoo for pushing the limit of the internet and for revolutionizing how we surf.

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Comments -- Add Your Own

1

Bubba

October 28, 2009, 9:38 am

Just as good as the Google one. Thanks for another quality post.

2

Eric

October 28, 2009, 9:41 am

Once again thanks Bubba. I am glad you like the posts.

3

help me

October 28, 2009, 10:41 am

Yahoo has changed a lot since the beginning. I like the new look, but on some of my computers I cannot see the new version. Its like it was made without the CSS. It says m.yahoo.com in the addres bar, does that mean it is the mobile version. How do I get rid of it since my yahoo page always goes to that version.

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Eric

October 28, 2009, 10:50 am

Hmmm....well, I see the Yahoo page clearly on all of my computers, but I did some research for you. First thing you need to do is clear the internet cache (IE: Tools > Internet Options > Delete Browsing History > Check Cookies OR check all > Delete), (Firefox:Tools > Options > Remove Individual Cookies > Find Yahoo and Delete the cookie). Then you need to browse to www.yahoo.com.

If this does not work there is another option. Once on the messed up page go to the bottom and click the "Return to Classic Yahoo.com". This will restore the old look.

Remember, on November 11th this page will be the new look of Yahoo. Maybe the beta testing is messed up on your computer and it will be fixed, but maybe not...you need to contact Yahoo support.

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Gary A.

October 28, 2009, 5:05 pm

The fix listed above does not last long. Yahoo are beta testing their new site on people, most of the people did not know about the test...that is why so many are confused.

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Eric

October 29, 2009, 8:45 am

Thanks to a Reddit user for pointing out an obvious mistake in our wording for the conclusion. We have fixed it to say search engine instead of browser....I have no idea why I put that...lol. Thanks again.