The Internet is a big place and has lots of different kinds of information. Nobody has enough time to find something on the Internet. Yahoo gives us a lot of help.
Two Stanford University students Jerry Yang and David Filo started it in 1994.They made a list of their favorite web pages. When their list got bigger, they made a database (数据库)to keep a lot of information. They let everyone use it for free. Soon, thousands of people were using it.
Then they made a new kind of software. It could store much more information, and people can find information by using it. If you look for "animal", it will give you a list of web pages with the word.
Yahoo became a public company in 1996.As the company grew, Yang and Filo went on working hard. They put more uses in the software, such as shopping and free e-mails. They started Yahoo in many different countries and in different languages.
Yahoo is famous on the Internet. It really makes money unlike most other web companies.
