Update 1:

I’m worried about yahoo = = not YouTube

Yahoo! Corporation (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American listed company and global Internet company Internet service company. It provides a series of Internet services, including portals, search engines, Yahoo! website classification, Yahoo! mailbox, news and login, etc. Yahoo! was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and the company was established on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. According to data from some web traffic analysis companies (including Alexa Inter, Comscore and Netcraft)[1], Yahoo! is already the most visited website on the Internet, with 400 million1 2 million visitors from IP users. Yahoo!'s global website has an average of 3.4 billion web pages visited every day, making it one of the most popular websites in the United States. History and development picture reference: upload.wikimedia/ *** /mons/thumb/a/ac/Jerry_Yang_and_David_Filo/250px-Jerry_Yang_and_David_Filo Yahoo! Co-founders Jerry Yang (left) and David Filo (right) Picture reference: upload .wikimedia/ *** /zh/thumb/1/1a/YahooNewPage.JPG/250px-YahooNewPage.JPG Yahoo! Home page screenshot picture reference: upload.wikimedia/ *** /mons/thumb/8/82/Yahoo_Headquarters/ 250px-Yahoo_Headquarters The early history of Yahoo! Headquarters in Sunnyvale (1994-1996) In January 1994, two graduate students at Stanford University, David Filo and Jerry Yang, created a company named It is the website of "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web". Jerry's Internet Directory is a website information index, a customizable database designed to meet the needs of thousands of users who are just beginning to use Internet services through the Internet community. They develop customizable software that helps them efficiently find, identify and edit data stored on the Internet. In April 1994, "Jerry's Internet Guide" was renamed "Yahoo!". The meaning of Yahoo is "another hierarchical, informal prophecy", but David Filo and Jerry Yang prefer to say, They chose this name because of the interpretation of Yahoo in "The Adventures of Lilliput", which means barbarian. By the end of 1994, Yahoo! had received 1 million hits, and Ferro and Jerry Yang realized their website had huge commercial potential and incorporated the company on March 1, 1995. On April 12, 1996, Yahoo held its initial public offering, selling 2.6 million shares at a price of $13 per share, raising $133.8 million. Since "Yahoo" has been registered for barbecue sauce and knives (EBSCO Industries), and human boats (Old Town Canoe Co.). Therefore, in order to obtain trademark rights, Ferro and Jerry Yang added an exclamation mark after Yahoo. However, when referring to Yahoo!, the exclamation point is often ignored.

Development (1997-1999) Like many search engines and web directories

Yahoo diversified into a Web portal. In the late 1990s

Yahoo

MSN

Lycos

Excite and other Web portals were growing rapidly. Web portal providers rushed to acquire panies to expand their range of services

in the hope of increasing the time a user stays at the portal. Like many Internet search engine companies, Yahoo gradually developed into a portal website. In the late 1990s, Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, Excite and many other portals grew rapidly. These portal companies expanded their service content by acquiring companies, hoping to increase the time users spend on the website. On 8 March 1997

Yahoo acquired online munications pany Four11. Four11's webmail service

Rocketmail

became Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo also acquired ClassicGames and turned it into Yahoo ! Games. Yahoo then acquired direct marketing pany Yoyodyne Entertainment

Inc. on 12 October 1998.[5] On 28 January 1999

Yahoo acquired web hosting provider GeoCities. Another pany Yahoo acquired was eGroups

which became Yahoo! Groups after the acquisition on 28 June 2000. Yahoo also launched Yahoo! Messenger on 21 July 1999. On March 8, 1997, Yahoo acquired the Internet communications company Four11. Four11 The company's online mailbox service Rocketmail eventually became Yahoo! Mailbox, and Yahoo also acquired ClassicGames, the predecessor of Yahoo! Games. Later, Yahoo acquired the direct selling company Yoyodyne Entertainment on October 12, 1998, and the online hosting service provider GeoCities on January 28, 1999. On June 28, 2000, Yahoo acquired eGroups, which later became Yahoo! Groups. Yahoo officially released Yahoo! Messenger on July 21, 1999.

When acquiring panies

Yahoo often changed the relevant terms of service. For example

they claimed intellectual property rights for content on their servers

unlike the panies they acquired . As a result

many of the acquisitions were controversial and unpopular with users of the existing services. Whenever Yahoo acquires a company, Yahoo often changes some related terms of service. For example, unlike the original acquiring company, Yahoo claims to have intellectual property rights to the content on their servers. This has made many of Yahoo's acquisitions very controversial, and has also caused existing users to question the results of these acquisitions. Not very welcome. Future (2007-) Yahoo! Next is a place to showcase Yahoo's new technologies and products. It is currently in the testing stage. It contains forums for Yahoo users to provide feedback

to aid the development of these Yahoo technologies.

A: The 27-year-old Chen Shijun immigrated to the United States from Taiwan. When he was studying computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he met fellow alumnus Chad Hurley while employed by the eBay online payment company PayPal. (Chad Hurley) and Jawed Karim. But just in January of last year (2005), both Chen Shijun and Chad Hurley left their previous jobs and were burdened with credit card debt. According to Chen Shijun, during a private party, he took a V8 camera to record the party, but he didn’t know how to share it with others on the Internet. So a month later, the two of them met Chad He. Chad Hurley's home garage and asked Jawed Karim to help him set up a server website that could share videos on the Internet. He named it YouTube, which means "your TV" , not only for watching on the Internet, but also for netizens to download and collect. Because of such a simple motive, I wanted to share the videos I took with others, and YouTube was born. Why YouTube has become so popular in the Internet audio and video industry can be attributed to the short film shot by netizens in Hong Kong, China, of a bus uncle yelling at passengers on the bus from April to May 2006, which made YouTube famous in Hong Kong, China. The film not only attracted many Hong Kong netizens to create secondary works, but also attracted reports and attention from local and foreign media. Since then, Hong Kong netizens have uploaded various short films to YouTube. By 2006, YouTube had 40 million short videos, attracting 6 million views every day. In just 15 months after its establishment, it had surpassed competitors such as MSN Video and Google Video and became the most viewed website in this century. YouTube not only allows netizens to watch videos online for entertainment, but what is even more bizarre is that "according to a report by Oriental Daily on August 31, 2006, a surveillance camera in an Apliu Street video store captured someone stealing, and the short video was uploaded by netizens afterwards. After browsing YouTube, a police officer was shocked to realize that the protagonist in the video was suspected to be a colleague. As a result, the police uncle who was about to retire was arrested for this. The case was investigated by the Sham Shui Po District Crime Squad, and the case was solved. YouTube's development model has attracted the favor of Silicon Valley startups, which invested more than 100 million US dollars in capital. The scale has also expanded from a 2-person team to 25 people. Chen Shijun serves as the chief technology officer. YouTube has lived up to expectations. It was founded in just 20 months. With a market share of over 40%, it ranks first in the entire online audio and video industry.

Although the process still involved Universal Music, EMI and Warner Music record companies competing for cooperation, and soon after, another record company threatened to sue YouTube, but you can imagine! More than 100 million video clips are watched on YouTube every day, and 65,000 videos are uploaded to its website every day, accounting for 60% of the online film and television viewing market. In addition, according to a survey by the Internet research company NielsenNetRatings, there are nearly 20 million Internet users every month. These achievements are the unity of netizens. No wonder the Internet search giant Google is still not afraid of such potential worries and is willing to pay a high price of 1.65 billion. Dollars buy YouTube.

Reference: ectimes/readpaper?id=8742

Picture reference: .yimg/i/icon/16/42 It was founded by Meifu, Hong Kong, China