Gadgetory

Yahoo started in April 1994 as a hobby of two Stanford PhD students david Philo and Jerry Yang a lot of fun discovery finding information you know that's what Yahoo's all about so what you guys do all time this is it yeah this is faces to recreation as well it's really it's really stress you're leaving so how did you guys come up with Yahoo where did this come from well used to be called Jerry and Dave's guide to the web and that was pretty boring so one day we decided to come up with something a little more interesting when we consider ourselves a couple Yahoo's and it's pretty fitting to I think the site and the Internet in general so here we are right in the middle of Yahoo what what drives how fat of a connection if you guys got well we just installed a t3 which is 45 megabits we're not gonna use all that we're actually sharing with somebody else but we're probably gonna take a big chunk of that it's fairly unimpressive as far as the spaciousness where most people think it's gonna be used space with all kinds of computer stuff but you know maybe 10 computers that are doing all the work here recently over the last week we're getting over like 6 million files transferred a day today we're adding between 500,000 site today did this rapid expansion catch you guys by surprise while you were at Stanford well we certainly never we never thought we'd get this point when you find these sites how do you decide if one is cool if we find something as we're adding these that really catches our eye and interesting we think that other people will think it's really interesting then we designate that as what's cool is a watch which shows okay there's bug watch for all you entomology freaks Robo cut and for all you fans of the mighty flow be committed to keeping the service free David and Jerry have yet to make a profit but to pay the bills they've taken on a few sponsors it's kinda like yellow paint when you go to the yellow pages you don't really mind seeing the ads that are in there that type of advertising I think is is more useful to the user do you need interns absolutely we need people pretty much and every thing you can imagine what is the future for Yahoo well I think what's gonna happen is we're gonna I really have to stay in top of the internet cuz it's gonna change really fast you know what's really important to us is our brand is our recognition we wanted people to associate a lot of fun discovery finding information you know that's what Yahoo is all about