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
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