![]() The then giant AOL company offered a buyout, but the two refused saying that their creation was done for fun and enjoyment and not at all for money. At this time, Yang and Filo leaves of absence and postponed their doctoral programs indefinitely Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo! added a web portal. Throughout the 1990s, Yahoo!'s growth grew rapidly and exponentially. Yahoo! became very popular as thousands have been visiting the site just few months after it was created. However, Filo and Yang insist they mainly selected the name because they liked the slang definition of a "yahoo". The term "oracle" was intended to mean "source of truth and wisdom," and the term "officious," rather than being related to the word's normal meaning, described the many office workers who would use the Yahoo database while surfing from work. The word "yahoo" is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. The site they made organized other sites into lists of different categories, and later into subcategories for easier searching. In April 1994, Yang and David Flo created a website called "Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web" that consisted of a directory of other websites. Back then, searching the web is similar to searching the library, which proved to be quite tedious. But when their supervisor left, and to their dismay, they put aside their project and instead surfed and experimented with the web. While studying Electrical Engineering at Stanford, Jerry Yang and David Filo teamed up to create computer chips with the use of computer-aided design. Yang graduated from Sierramont Middle School and Piedmont Hills High School in San Jose, and went on to earn a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Yang’s father died when he was just 2 years old. ![]() However, Yang was able to master the English language just after three years, and was even put into an AP (Advanced Placement) English class, a program that offers college level courses to high school. ![]() Despite his mother being an English teacher, it wasn't easy for Yang to adapt to the new environment with only a single English word (shoe) on his vocabulary. Yang with his mother and younger brother moved to San Jose, California at the age of ten. Jerry Yang (traditional Chinese: 楊致遠 simplified Chinese: 杨致远 pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn) was born on November 6th, 1968, in Taipei, Taiwan. ![]()
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