Did Microsoft create Yahoo! ?
2006-07-28 05:21:31 · 10 answers · asked by MIAAAAAAARGH:D 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Definitely not.
The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born.
The Web site started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. 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! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
2006-07-28 05:27:30 · answer #1 · answered by chalyde 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
Yahoo was created by some blokes. It is supposed to stand for Yet Another Hierarchically Organised Oracle
"It's a far cry from the company's humble beginnings. The two developers of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in April 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they found that their home-brewed lists were becoming too long and unwieldy. Gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo!. "
2006-07-28 05:26:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Yahoo was first created by an Indian
2006-07-28 05:25:16 · answer #3 · answered by Sexy Terrorist 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummmm...... NO! Microsoft is in fact a rival company to Yahoo!, with MSN being from Microsoft. Yahoo! is from a company called... wait for it... Yahoo!
2006-07-28 05:31:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believe it or not it's from a company called Yahoo!
2006-07-28 05:24:54 · answer #5 · answered by Graham I 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but my guess is you are asking because Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger can now share contacts.
The reason for this is that they are both trying to get people away from AIM.
2006-07-28 05:29:08 · answer #6 · answered by wyntre_2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - Yahoo is a completely seperate company
2006-07-28 05:25:03 · answer #7 · answered by Steve C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no yahoo works properly.
2006-07-28 05:26:22 · answer #8 · answered by The Drunken Fool 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-07-28 05:24:35 · answer #9 · answered by !{¤©¤}! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
2006-07-28 05:23:54 · answer #10 · answered by Thor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋