Yahoo!!!!! 15 things that everyone knows

1. Found by David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 1994

2.David Filo and Jerry Yang were students at Stanford University just like their counterparts Larry Page and Sergey Brin and started Yahoo as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"

3.Yahoo stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

4.Yahoo is also a fictitious race in the book Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift.

5. In 2008 Microsoft tried to takeover Yahoo they failed and started Bing.

6. Yahoo went on a massive spending spree some of the services they bought served as a backdrop for upcoming services. In 1997, they bought Four11 whose product Rocket mail was re-developed as Yahoo Mail,Classicgames.com set the backdrop for Yahoo Games and eGroups became Yahoo groups in 2000.

7. Yahoo Messenger was initially called Yahoo Pager. 

8. During the dotcom bubble Yahoo and Ebay were planning a 50/50 merger. 

9. Similar to Google Picassa Yahoo owns Flickr #CopycatJoe

10. Yahoo has had quite a few CEO's ranging from Tim Koogle (1995-2001), Terry Semel(2001-2007), Jerry Yang (2007-2009), Carol Bartz( 2009-2011),Tim Morse( 2011-2012), Scott Thompson (January 2012- May 2012), Ross Levinsohn and finally now Marissa Mayer.

11. Marissa Mayer is an ex-employee of Google. #Lookhowthetidehasturned

12.Yahoo recently acquired Summly from a teenager. #Signofthingstocome

13.Yahoo's board also approved a buy out of the popular blogging site tumblr.

14.Initially Yahoo made use of Google for their search. #Bigmistake

15.Yahoo tried to buy facebook but the deal fell apart. Similarly, when they tried to buy Youtube Google outbid them.Google did the same thing again when they outbid buyers to buy Doubleclick #Life'sabitch

Google 101 : 21 things only Google

1.Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

2.Initially nicknamed as Backrub.

3.Google is derived from the word Googol which means 10 to the power of 100.

4.Google first set up office in Susan Wojcicki's garage and she also happens to be Google's first employee and "the most important googler you have never heard of"

5.The first round of venture funding for Google came from Andy Bechtolsheim who happens to be the co-founder of SUN Microsystems (Stanford University Network).

6.When Google went public with their IPO they raised exactly $2,718,281,828, which is the product of "e" and $ 1 Billion, where "e" is the base of the natural logarithm-a logarithm especially useful in calculus- and equals about 2.718281828.

7.Goog is Google's ticker symbol on the NYSE and GGQ1 on the Frankfurt stock exchange.

8.Google is now a word in the Merriam Webster Dictionary and you'll find it's usage as "To use Google search engine to find information from the internet"

9. Google has bought a host of companies and products a few prominent ones being Picasa, Android, Youtube, Feedburner and Motorola among many others.

10. Google's long list of products include Google Search, Gmail, Google Books,Google Adwords, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google+ and Google drive among many others.

11. Google also happens to be the pioneer in operating system development with one web browser Chrome, an operating system based on Chrome called chrome os, a mobile based open source operating system called android and Google TV.

12. Google's corporate headquarters is called the Googleplex.

13.Google uses a technique called motivation time off giving employees about 20% of their working time to work on a project they truly believe in. Some of Google's grandest innovations such as Gmail, Google maps etc have been an outcome of this practise.

14. Marissa Mayer Google's first female engineer left Google to join Yahoo in 2012.

15. On 4 April, 2011 Eric Schmidt the company's long serving CEO stepped down to allow Larry Page to fill his shoes.

16. Google was a pioneer in social networking till Facebook shot into the limelight. At one point of time Orkut was ruling the roost.

17. The first Google doodle of the Burning Man was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. 

18. Google has been forever known for their timeless April Fools Jokes including MentalPlex, Pidgeon Rank, Google Copernicus Centre, Google Gulp, Google Romance, Gmail Paper and this years Google Nose beta.

19. New Google employees are called Nooglers.

20. Google has announced a plan with Virgin to establish a permanent community on Mars. The project has been called Virgle.

21. Google's upcoming project Google Glass is going to be a game changer in all likelihood along with it's Nexus Range of Phones and Tablets.