The development history of Yahoo should be concise and to the point.

1994 65438+ 10 in October, david filo, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Stanford University, and Jerry Yang, an American Chinese, co-founded Yahoo. It was called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" 1994. In May, the online traffic of Jerry and David Guide Database exceeded 65438+ 1995. Yahoo was founded in March. As for the meaning of Yahoo, Yang Zhiyuan later recalled: "We found this name in a travel brochure. We think Yahoo represents foreign tourists who have neither experience nor education, and it is very similar to us computer people, so we use Yahoo! As the name of this software. " 1In April 1995, Sequoia Capital, the most important venture capital company in Menlo Park Silicon Valley, California, invested in Yahoo and is now a shareholder of Google. 1April 1996, Yahoo was officially listed. The market value of that day reached 800 million USD 1997 10. 10, Yahoo launched the mail service 1998. In September, Yahoo Online Auction Channel was released. In March 2000, Yahoo launched B2B e-commerce. Service 2001June Yahoo acquired online music company launchmedia20011February Yahoo acquired online recruitment website Hotjobs.com. In 2003, Yahoo successively acquired the search companies Inktomi and Overture. In 2003, Platinum Yahoo's broadband charging service was officially released in June 2004.