David Filo
partnered with his friend Jerry Yang
and created the popular search engine Yahoo!. What started as a hobby Filo and
Yang spent together during their vacant times while studying at Stanford
University is now one of the most popular search engines and directories on the
web.
Filo is a native
of Wisconsin but later moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana at six years old. As a
dean’s lister in Tulane University where he finished his high school, Filo
earned a scholarship at the University where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in
Computer Engineering. He pursued his graduate studies at Stanford University
where he finished his Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering.
While at
Stanford, Filo and Yang would spend their free times surfing the internet. They
figured out how to place all the thousands of websites appearing everyday into
one directory. Their “experiment” led to the birth of Yahoo!. Yahoo! is the acronym
for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracles!”
To make their
search engine different, Yahoo! offers online personals, shopping, dating, web
hosting and many more.
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