Our Story

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Email. Search. Real-time media. Yahoo didn't just pioneer the web we know today – we humanized it.
And tech needs humanity now more than ever.

1994

Yahoo was founded by Stanford university engineering students, Jerry Yang and David Filo.

1995

The Yahoo.com domain is officially registered. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”

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Yahoo homepage in 1995.

1997

Yahoo Mail blasted off when we acquired RocketMail. We now handle over 25 billion emails a day.

Today we’re using 500B daily data signals from mail, search, content and more to power performance for Yahoo DSP advertisers.

2003

Yahoo broke the world record for largest simultaneous yodel. We did it again in 2015!
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2011

Yahoo intellectual property soars, with the award of our 1,000th patent.

We’ve always been inventors and idea-makers. Today our researchers and technologists work in AI, machine learning and more to build the products you love.

2017

Yahoo launches the industry’s first Neurodiversity Employee Resource group.

We have over 15 ERGs and are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging through learning, listening and acting for equality and social justice.

2017

AOL and Yahoo come together to create a powerful portfolio of media and technology brands.

We’re all about connecting people to more of what they love through brands they trust.

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