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The development history of Yahoo should be concise

In January 1994, David Filo, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and Jerry Yang, a Chinese-American, founded Yahoo. At that time, it was known as "Jerry and David's Network" "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" In May 1994, the number of online visits to "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" exceeded 100,000. In March 1995, Yahoo was established. As for the meaning of Yahoo, Jerry Yang Later he recalled: "We found this name in a travel brochure. We felt that Yahoo represented those foreign tourists who had neither experience nor education, and were very similar to us computer people, so we used it. Yahoo! came as the name of this software.

"In April 1995, Sequoia Capital, the most influential venture capital firm in Silicon Valley located in Menlo Park, California, invested in Yahoo. Now it is also a shareholder of Google. Yahoo officially went public in April 1996, with a market value of US$800 million on that day. 1997 In October, Yahoo launched an email service. In September 1998, Yahoo launched its online auction channel. In March 2000, Yahoo launched a business-to-business e-commerce (B2B) service. In June 2001, Yahoo acquired online music company Launch Media. In December 2001, Yahoo acquired an online recruitment website. HotJobs.com In 2003, Yahoo acquired the search companies Inktomi and Overture. In October 2003, Platinum Yahoo broadband charging service was officially launched. In January 2004, Yahoo announced that it would abandon Google as a search service outsourcer