Yini 'Yahoo' Emele?

Yahoo! (isipelingi ngephawu lokumemeza) lifushane "Nenye enye isenzo esibi se-Hierarchical". Leli gama eliyinqaba futhi elide kakhulu lahlanganiswa ngo-1994 ngogesi ababili kagesi Ph.D. abazobhalwa eStanford University: uDavid Filo noJerry Yang.


Igama lokuqala: "Umhlahlandlela kaDavid noJerry weWeb Web Wide ," kwakufanelekile, kodwa hhayi kahle. Basebenzisa isichazamazwi ukuba bafike nge "Yahoo!", igama umuntu angakhumbula futhi athi kalula. Okubaluleke nakakhulu, uJerry noDavid bathi bathande incazelo ye-yahoo: "abanobuqili, abangenakuqhathaniswa, abangenasici."

Ekugcineni, igama le-Yahoo! wenza ngokucacile ukuchaza njengenqolobane yokusesha iwebhu. Igama elithi "ukulandelana" lichaza ukuthi i-Yahoo! i-database yahlelwa ezihlokweni zemibhalo. Igama elithi "oracle" lalihloselwe ukuthi lisho "umthombo weqiniso nokuhlakanipha". Futhi "okusemthethweni" kuchaza abasebenzi abaningi basehhovisi abangasebenzisa i-Yahoo! database ngenkathi ukusuka emsebenzini.

UJerry noDavid babethanda ukukhipha iWebhu. IWebhu yayineminyaka engu-5 ubudala futhi isalokhu ibe "encane" ngo-1994, kodwa ngezinkulungwane zamawebhusayithi ezidalwa nsuku zonke, kwakunzima ukuthola lutho ngokushesha. Ngakho, abafundi ababili bakhetha i-Yahoo! njengesiqondiso sabo siqu kwi-World Wide Web! Ngamazwi abo, "bezama nje ukuthatha konke lokho futhi bahlele ukuze kube usizo".

UJerry noDavid bachitha ubusuku obuningi behlupha uhlu lwewebhusayithi yabo eyintandokazi eya kwi-Yahoo! database .

Ekuqaleni, uhlu lukwazi ukuphathwa kodwa, ngokushesha, lwaba lukhulu kakhulu ukuhamba kalula. Yilapho uhlu olukhulu luhlukaniswe ngezigaba. Ngemva kwesikhashana, lezi zigaba nazo zagcwala kakhulu futhi kwadingeka zihlukaniswe zibe yizigaba ezingaphansi. Lokhu, yiqiniso, yaba yinto eyaziwa ngokuthi "umongo osekelwe" umqondo ngemuva Yahoo !.

Ngokuyinhloko ngezwi lomlomo, i-Yahoo! izilaleli zakhula ngokushesha. Ngakapheli unyaka, inethiwekhi yaseStanford yavalwa kakhulu nge-Yahoo! I-traffic search web, uJerry, noDavid kwadingeka bahambise i-Yahoo! yabo database kwihhovisi lamaNetscape.

UDavid noJerry baqaphele amandla ka-Yahoo njengobhizinisi benkampani futhi bahlanganiswa ngoMashi ka -95. Bobabili bashiya izifundo zabo zokufunda iziqu ukusebenza ku-Yahoo! isikhathi esigcwele. Ngo-Ephreli 1995, abatshalizimali be-Sequoia Capital baxhaswa nge-Yahoo! ngokutshalwa kwezimali okuqala okungaba ngu-$ 2 million. Futhi, ngalesi sikhathi, uDavid noJerry baqasha uTim Koogle njenge-CEO noJeffrey Mallett njenge COO emaceleni eqembu labo labaphathi. Imali eyengeziwe yafika kamuva ngo-1995 evela kubatshalomali Softbank noReuters Ltd.

Yahoo !, njengeqembu labasebenzi abangu-49, bahamba nge-IPO ngo-Ephreli ka-1996.

Emagama kaThim Koogle, Yahoo! bekulokhu "ukuvivinya umzimba ekulaleni". Umqondo owawunembile, ohlelwe kahle futhi ngaphambi kwesikhathi saso, waba Yahoo! Inc. - inethiwekhi ehamba phambili yezokuxhumana ye-intanethi, ezentengiselwano, kanye nabezindaba ezinikezela ngamasevisi amaningi enethiwekhi kubantu abangaphezu kwezigidi ezingu-345 ngenyanga ngenyanga yonke.

Namuhla, uDavid noJerry, abaphakathi kweminyaka engamashumi amathathu nantathu, banamabhiliyoni. Akekho kubo abaye babuyela emuva ukuqeda i-Ph.D yabo. izifundo, kodwa zombili zibalwa ngo-Forbes njengamadoda amabili angama-400 asele kakhulu eMelika.

Sibonga ngokukhethekile kumlobi wezobuchwepheshe wezivakashi, uJoanna Gurnitsky kulesi sihloko

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