www.yahoo.com
Yahoo! is a web portal that combines a search engine and a list of websites, all of which are arranged in a hierarchy of topic categories. As a directory, it gives both new and seasoned Web users the comfort of a structured view of millions of Web pages and hundreds of thousands of Web sites. It provides a wide range of appealing online services, including Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Search, Advertising, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Video, and Yahoo Maps, among others.
It also offers one of the best ways to conduct a Web search for a particular subject. Since Yahoo is linked to the top Web search engines, even if a search doesn't produce results for a Yahoo topic page, results from the top six or seven search engines will still be returned.
David Filo and Jerry Yang, two graduate students at Stanford University, created Yahoo! from their bookmark collections. The list started to develop into an Internet phenomenon after they posted their combined bookmark collections organized by categories on a college website.
It gained a sizable following and became the first of its kind. Filo and Yang put off finishing their graduate degrees in order to take part in a multimillion dollar company's initial public offering. Around 3.4 billion page views were being served by Yahoo as of October 2005.
