He aha ka 'Yahoo' kū no?

Yahoo! ʻaʻohe pōkole no ka "Yet Other Hierarchical Official Oracle". ʻO kēia inoaʻano lōʻihi a me ka lōʻihi i hoʻopaʻaʻia i ka makahiki 1994 e nāʻike hoʻokele elekeneʻelua Ph.D. nā moho ma Stanford University: David Filo lāuaʻo Jerry Yang.


ʻO ka inoa mua: "Nā Guide a David a me Jerry i ka Pūnaewele Pūnaewele Pūnaewele ," he kūpono ia, akā,ʻaʻole pololei i ka hopu. Ua hoʻohana lākou i ka puke wehewehe'ōlelo e piʻi mai me "Yahoo!", Kahi manawa e hiki ai i kekahi ke hoʻomanaʻo a'ōlelo me kaʻoluʻolu. ʻO ka mea nui aku,'ōleloʻo Jerry a me David i makemake lākou i ka ho'ākākaʻana o kahi yahoo: "hōʻino,ʻaʻohe pono,ʻaʻohe."

I ka hopena, hua'ōlelo Yahoo! ua hana maʻalahi ia i keʻanoʻo ia ma ke 'ano hulina pūnaewele. ʻO ka hua'ōlelo "hierarchical" i ho'ākākaʻia i keʻano o Yahoo! ua hoʻonohonohoʻia nā papahana i nā papa kuhikuhi. ʻO ka hua'ōlelo "ahupuaʻa" i manaʻoʻiaʻo ia ka "kumu o kaʻoiaʻiʻo a me ke akamai." A ua ho'ākākaʻia ka "oihana" e nā poʻe keʻenaʻoihana e hoʻohana i nā Yahoo! i kaʻikepili i ka heʻenaluʻana mai ka hana.

Ua makemakeʻo Jerry a alohaʻo David i ka Pūnaewele. He 5 mau makahiki wale nō ka Pūnaewele a ua pili nō hoʻi i ka "liʻiliʻi" i ka makahiki 1994, akā me ka lehulehu o nā pūnaewele i hanaʻia i kēlā lā i kēia lā, ua paʻakikī loa ka loaʻaʻana o kekahi mea wikiwiki. No laila, hana nā haumānaʻelua i Yahoo! e like me ko lākou alakaʻi pono'ī i ka Pūnaewele Pūnaewele puni honua! I kā lākou mau'ōlelo pono'ī, "e ho'āʻo wale ana lākou e lawe i kēlā mau mea a hoʻonohonoho i mea e pono ai."

Ua halaʻo David a me David i nā pō he nui e wehewehe ana i ka papa inoa o kā lākou punaewele punahele i Yahoo! pūnaewele .

I ka hoʻomakaʻana, hiki ke hoʻohanaʻia ka papa inoa, akā, i ka wā pōkole, ua nui loa ka hoʻokeleʻana me ka maʻalahi. ʻO kēia ka wā i māheleheleʻia ka papa inoa nui i nāʻano. Ma hope o kekahi manawa, ua lilo ka piha i nā piha a pono e māheleʻia i loko o nā kahawai. Ua lilo kēia,ʻoiaʻiʻo, i ka mea iʻikeʻiaʻo ka "search context" huli ma hope o Yahoo !.

Ma keʻano o ka waha, ka Yahoo! ua ulu koke ka poʻe. I loko o hoʻokahi makahiki, ua hōʻehaʻia ke network network Stanley me Yahoo! hulina pūnaewele,ʻo Jerry, aʻo David e neʻe i ko lākou Yahoo! kaʻikepili i nā keʻena Netscape.

Uaʻikeʻo David lāuaʻo Jerry i ka loaʻa o Yahoo i kahiʻoihana hui a hoʻokomoʻia i Malaki o '95. Ua haʻalele lāua i kā lākou aʻo kulanui e hana ma Yahoo! hana piha. IʻApelila 1995, hoʻokaeʻia nā Yahoo! me kahi kūʻai mua o ka $ 2 miliona. I kēia manawa hoʻi, ua hoʻolimalimaʻo David lāuaʻo Jerry iā Tim Koogle ma keʻano he Luna Nui a me Jeffrey Mallett e like me COO i loko o nā papa o kā lākou hui. Ma hope mai o ka 1995 i loaʻa mai ai ke kālā i loaʻa mai i nā mea waiwai Softbank a Reuters Reuters.

Yahoo !, me he hui o 49 mau limahana, hele IPO i loko oʻApelila o 1996.

ʻO Tim Koogle, Yahoo! he "hana hoʻomaha i ka hiamoe". ʻO ka manaʻo iʻikeʻia, i hoʻomaopopo maikaʻiʻia a ma mua o kona manawa, liloʻo Yahoo! Inc. - heʻahahui nui pūnaewele pūnaewele puni honua, kālepa, a me ka hui pūnaewele e hāʻawi ana i kahi nui o nā lawelawe pūnaewele i kahi o 345 miliona mau kānaka i kēlā me kēia mahina ma ke ao holoʻokoʻa.

I kēia lā,ʻo David lāuaʻo Jerry, aia ma waena o ko lākou mau kaumāmā, he piliona piliona. ʻAʻole i hoʻi kekahi o lākou i ka hoʻopauʻana i kā lākou Ph.D. ke aʻoʻia, akā ua kohoʻia e Forbes e like meʻelua o nā kānaka waiwai loa maʻAmelika.

Mahalo nui i ka mea kākau kiʻi puke, Joanna Gurnitsky no kēiaʻatikala

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