Yahoo discovery that began as a book marker

In 1995, two men were found Yahoo, the second biggest search engine after Google. At that time, 26-year-old Jerry and Filo 28 years.
Last year, the giant company Microsoft had wanted to buy Yahoo. Discussed the bid value: 44.6 billion dollars (Rp458, 8 trillion). This plan was canceled. After that, Microsoft and Yahoo did not dismiss the possibility of cooperation in the future.

Yahoo! is a popular web portal operated company called Yahoo! Inc. .. Yahoo! was originally just a kind of bookmarks (bookmarks), the idea originated in April 1994, when the two alumni of the Stanford University professor received a holiday when they go out of town because the big vacation.

Engineering students David Filo and Jerry Yang has a bit of work to do but surf the Internet. They did not take long to compile a huge list of bookmarks, grouped by subject.

Then they think, why not put it on the web? They then worked to create a database program to handle it, which can give results online.

Bookmark collection, now known as Yahoo, received some 80 million visitors per month (2000 census).