10 Unknown Fact About Yahoo!

You might hear about Yahoo! it is basically a search engine by Microsoft. it is as famous as the internet today. Yahoo was found in 1994 and there are two people in this creation. Now this company occupies third place in the internet search engine.

Here are some fun fact about this company which you might not know before

➤  This company is much older than your thinking: 

Yahoo was founded on March 2, 1994, by jerry yang and Davis Filo and this makes it older than Google.though it is older but it is still best to all internet users.

Jerry Yang and Devis Filo

➤Yahoo wasn't its first name:

You might be amazed to hear that yahoo was not the first name of this company, it is not so catchy like it is nowadays. When it was founded it was called "Jerry and David's guide to world wide web" but they quickly renamed it with Yahoo

➤The fact Behind '!' shine:

Unfortunately, the 'Yahoo' name was taken by a BBQ sauce company.so they decided to add an exclamation mark at the end and never turned back.

BBQ SAUCE

 

➤Full-Form Of 'Yahoo':

Did you knew that "Yahoo "is an Acronym

➤It Knows Where To Invest:

Yahoo! has made some notable acquisitions in its past. It purchased Tumblr for $1 billion to attract a younger audience and owns a 40% stake in China’s Alibaba. In 2005, its stake was worth $1 billion and is now worth more than $30 billion today. In 2018, its stake in Alibaba accounts for most of its entire $37 billion valuations.

➤Fact About Its CEO:

Marissa Mayer is the CEO of Yahoo!, he loves shopping. During her five years of CEO from 2012-2017 

Marissa Mayer

➤It Rejected Offers From Microsoft:

In 2008, Microsoft offered Yahoo! $45 billion to buy the company in an attempt to ‘team-up’ and take on Google, which had since become somewhat of a tech giant. It declined the offer and continued its streak of search engine and email services.

➤It Could Have Owned Google:

➤The 'Bing' Search Engine:

It was July 29th, 2009 when Microsoft and Yahoo entered a deal to give yahoo’s search engine, Bing to Microsoft for a period of 10 years.

Microsoft Bing

➤It Has a New Plan For Future:

After its purchase in 2017, Yahoo! now belongs to Verizon Communications under a newly-created subsidiary called Oath, alongside AOL. Under Oath, it can continue its telecom and internet operations into the future and beyond.