Yahoo! - 6 months of birth have become giants

Yahoo! search engine It was also created by a pair of young boys like Google. Two Yahoo! David Filo and Jerry Yang are both 'citizens' of the prestigious Stanford University, USA

From the need to do the thesis

Yahoo! built by two founders from their need to find information on the Internet while doing a doctoral thesis. In February 1994, because the list of web addresses collected was getting longer and longer, both had to spend a lot of time sorting and rearranging them to make them easier to find. At first it was just the main directories, then they had to develop further into subdirectories for more detailed and accurate classification.

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So David Filo and Jerry Yang thought about how to systematically organize website addresses to easily find information according to each person's preferences. This idea is the stone that laid the foundation for Yahoo! born.

At first, both put a long name for their search site 'Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web' (Guide of Jerry and David to enter the World Wide Web). Then, unsatisfied, they resorted to the support of the dictionary and found out the word 'Yahoo' stands for the phrase 'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle' (literally, another advice on unrighteous order. awake). There are a number of other names that you both chose at the beginning like 'Akebono' or 'Konishiki', but both Yang and Filo like its meaning in other ways, which is the definition: 'gross, simple and wild. like Yahoo creature in the work of writer Jonathan Swift. Yahoo! quickly developed with the help of friends of the two founders. About 6 months after its launch, the website has reached a record of up to 1 million hits per day, equivalent to 100,000 visitors.

In 1995, Yahoo! officially became a company and the two founders interacted with a series of investors in Silicon Valley. As a result, Sequoia Capital Investment Fund agreed to give Yahoo! nearly 2 million USD. Sequoia is also considered to have a good eye because of the great success of Sequoia because it has chosen to invest in Apple, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems before and has achieved great success.

In 1996, Yahoo! shocked people when their staff of 49 people had many leadership faces of the top brand name like Tim Koogle from Motorola, Jeffrey from Novell .

Currently, the revenue / year of Yahoo! about 4 billion USD, profit of nearly 1 billion USD and the company's market value at this time is about 120 billion USD. Daily number of visitors to Yahoo! up to 345 million. Yahoo! There are offices in almost all major regions in the world and the future is not very far, probably in Vietnam.

To search effectively

To search for high-quality Vietnamese content, you should use the Vietnamese search page of Yahoo! at http://vn.search.yahoo.com/ instead of typing Vietnamese Unicode in English search page.

At this search page, you will see the page interface completely in Vietnamese. There are 3 separate sections, including general web search, image search and news search. This classification will help you proactively filter out the content you do not want to find in the search results, shorten the time to find information.

Yahoo! It also allows you to customize parameters related to access results. To customize, go to the 'Preferences' section to specify functions such as: Safe search (restricting adult content from search results); Language options (find only results in the language you selected); Layout and Display (change the display style of the search results page).

In addition, you can also refine your search results by going to the 'Advanced Search' section to select the exact range of search parameters such as time, keyword position in information, domain, format. file.

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