Yahoo! on This Day in History

This Day in History: Yahoo! was incorporated on this day in 1995. It had to add the "!" because "Yahoo" was already owned by a company that made BBQ sauce. The company was originally called “Jerry and Dave’s Guide to the World Wide Web” but they changed it to Yahoo which is an acronym for 'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle'. Back in the 90's, Yahoo actually had a magazine that I regularly bought. Yahoo was once the leading search engine for the Internet, and for a brief time in January 2000, it was the most valuable company in the world and the $YHOO stock traded for $475.00. That stock symbol no longer exists. Google's Page and Brin once offered to sell their algorithm to Yahoo!, but the offer was declined. That may have been their biggest mistake. Yahoo! may now be overshadowed by Google, but it's Sports and Finance pages are still widely regarded.