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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American computer services company. It operates an Internet portal, the Yahoo! Directory and a host of other services including Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Manage My Services · Yahoo! Small Business Help > Yahoo!.

According to Web trends companies Alexa Internet and Netcraft, Yahoo! is the most visited website on the Internet today with more than 400 million unique users. The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3. 4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005.

History

Yahoo! started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", a web site featuring a directory of other sites, organized in a hierarchy (rather than a searchable index of pages).