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The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering and started in 1994 under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. [1] When Yahoo! changed its main results to crawler-based listings under Yahoo! Search in October 2002, the human-edited directory's significance dropped, but it was still being updated as of August 19, 2014. [2]
Yahoo! announced that adding new content would be blocked on October 28, 2019. [11] [12] Once the content was deleted, users of Yahoo! Groups were only able to browse the group directory, request invitations and, if members of a group, send messages to that group. [13] [14] On October 13, 2020, Yahoo! announced they would be shutting down Yahoo!
Yahoo! was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates at Stanford University [1] when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
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David Filo (2014) – co-founder, chief Yahoo and director, Yahoo Inc.! Catherine J. Friedman; Eddy Hartenstein (2016) – non-executive chairman of the board of directors at Tronc; Richard Hill – chairman of the board of directors at Tessera Technologies; Vinny Lingham – co-founder & CEO at Civic; Marissa Mayer (2012) – CEO, Yahoo! Inc.
Bix – A website that provided tools for the creation of contests; acquired by Yahoo on November 16, 2006, and shut down on June 30, 2009. [16] [17] blo.gs – A directory of blogs; acquired in June 2005 and sold to Automattic, parent of WordPress.com in April 2009. [18] [19] [20] Yahoo! Briefcase – A free file hosting service; shut down on ...
By 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting point for web users, [26] and the human-edited Yahoo Directory the most popular search engine, [18] receiving 95 million page views per day, triple that of rival Excite. [24] It also made many high-profile acquisitions.