26 May 2013 :: In a weekly Poll survey by Lenseye.co, 100% people says David Filo & Jerry Yang developed Yahoo.
The Question of the Weekly Poll was Who developed Yahoo?
The Nominees were Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson, David Filo & Jerry Yang, Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn, Steve Case & Jeff Bezos & Don’t Know.
Yahoo! Inc. was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. In January 1994, Yang and Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University when they created a website named “Jerry’s guide to the world wide web”. David and Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In March 1994, “David and Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web” was renamed “Yahoo!” The “yahoo.com” domain was created on January 18, 1995.
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is widely known for its web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo! websites every month. Yahoo! itself claims it attracts “more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages.
