Menene 'Yahoo' ke Tsayawa?

Yahoo! (alama tare da alamar alama) ta takaice don "Duk da haka Wani Babban Ma'aikatar Harkokin Gida". Wannan nau'i mai ma'ana da kuma tsawon lokaci an yi shi a 1994 ta hanyar aikin injiniya na biyu Ph.D. 'yan takara a Jami'ar Stanford: David Filo da Jerry Yang.


Sunan asali: "Dauda da Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web ", ya dace, amma ba daidai ba ne. Sun yi amfani da ƙamus don su zo tare da "Yahoo!", wani lokaci wanda kowa zai iya tuna kuma ya faɗi da sauƙi. Mafi mahimmanci, Jerry da David sun ce suna son fassarar yahoo: "m, unsophisticated, uncouth."

A ƙarshe, kalmar Yahoo! ya nuna shi sosai a matsayin jagorar binciken yanar gizo. Kalmar nan "babban tsari" aka bayyana yadda Yahoo! An shirya kundin tsarin bayanai a cikin layuka. Kalmar "magana" an yi nufin nufin "tushen gaskiya da hikima". Kuma "jami'in" ya bayyana yawan ma'aikatan ofisoshin da zasu yi amfani da Yahoo! database yayin da hawan igiyar ruwa daga aiki.

Jerry da Dauda suna son yin hawan kan yanar gizo. Shafukan yanar gizo kawai shekaru 5 ne kawai kuma har yanzu suna da "kananan" a cikin 1994, amma tare da dubban shafukan intanet suna kirkiro a kowace rana, yana da wuyar samun wani abu da sauri. Don haka, ɗalibai biyu sun gina Yahoo! a matsayin jagorar kansu ga yanar gizo na duniya! A cikin nasu kalmomi, suna "kokarin ƙoƙari su ɗauki dukan waɗannan abubuwa kuma su tsara shi don suyi amfani".

Jerry da Dauda sun shafe kwanaki da yawa suna rarraba jerin sunayen shafukan da suka fi so a Yahoo! database .

Da farko, jerin sunyi amfani amma, nan da nan, ya zama mai girma don yin tafiya tare da sauƙi. Wannan shi ne lokacin da babban lissafin ya raba kashi. Bayan dan lokaci, ma'anar sun zama cikakkun kuma dole a raba su cikin ƙananan sassa. Wannan, ba shakka, ya zama abin da aka sani da "binciken tushen" binciken binciken a baya Yahoo !.

Girma da kalmar baki, da Yahoo! masu sauraro sun karu da sauri. A cikin shekara guda, cibiyar sadarwa ta Stanford ta zama ta kama tare da Yahoo! Shafin yanar gizon yanar gizo, Jerry, kuma Dauda ya motsa Yahoo! Database zuwa ga ofisoshin Netscape.

David da Jerry sun gane cewa Yahoo ne mai yiwuwa a matsayin kamfanoni da aka kafa a watan Maris na shekarar 1959. Dukansu sun bar karatun digiri na karatu a kan Yahoo! cikakken lokaci. A watan Afrilun 1995, masu zuba jarurruka na Sequoia Capital sun tallafa wa Yahoo! tare da zuba jari na kusan kusan dala miliyan 2. Har ila yau, a wannan lokacin, David da Jerry sun ha] a hannu Tim Koogle a matsayin Shugaba da kuma Jeffrey Mallett, a matsayin COO, a cikin sashen kula da su. Ƙarin kudade ya zo daga baya daga 1995 daga masu zuba jari Softbank da Reuters Ltd.

Yahoo !, a matsayinta na ma'aikata 49, ya tafi IPO a watan Afrilun 1996.

A cikin kalmomin Tim Koogle, Yahoo! ya kasance "aikin motsa jiki". Manufar da ke da ilhama, da aka tsara da kuma gaba da lokaci, ya zama Yahoo! Inc. - babbar tashar yanar gizo na intanet, kasuwanci, da kuma kamfanin watsa labaru wanda ke ba da labaran sabis na cibiyar sadarwa zuwa fiye da mutane miliyan 345 kowane wata a dukan duniya.

A yau, Dauda da Jerry, wadanda suka kai shekaru talatin, su ne billionaires. Babu wani daga cikinsu ya koma ya gama Ph.D. nazarin, amma dukansu sun hada da Forbes a matsayin biyu daga cikin 400 mafi arziki a Amurka.

Musamman godiya ga marubucin masanin fasaha, Joanna Gurnitsky ga wannan labarin

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