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What is the history behind Yahoo.com?

When did it start doing the greeting cards, when did it merge into american greeting? Or was it always like that but yahoo had their name on it? What is the culture behind yahoo.com? Does it have a main office where people can actually say they work for Yahoo.com? There isn't much information about how it actually works.

Public Comments

1. Yahoo was founded in 1994 by David Filo and Jerry Yang. As far as the greeting cards, they are one of the many advertisers from which Yahoo makes their money. Yes they do have an office where people work from. They are based out of Sunnyvale California. You can read about it here: http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/management.cfm
2. In January 1994, Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website named "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web". Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other web sites, organized in a hierchary, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" is a backronym for this name, but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."[1] By the end of 1994, Yahoo! had already received one million hits. Yang and Filo realized their website had massive business potential, and on 2 March 1995, Yahoo! was incorporated.[2] On 12 April 1996, Yahoo! had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 million dollars, by selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each. "Yahoo" had already been trademarked for barbecue sauce, knives (by EBSCO Industries) and human propelled watercraft (by Old Town Canoe Co.). Therefore, in order to get the trademark, Yang and Filo added the exclamation mark to the name.[3] However, the exclamation mark is often incorrectly omitted when referring to Yahoo! You could get more information from the link below...