Hi, friends!
Today I want to tell with you about
Yahoo as a kind of search system.
At once I would like to ask you: what kinds of more famous
search systems do you know?
We can name some
search systems as Google,
Yahoo, Yandex, Rambler. Not so far Bingo from Microsoft was created.
What do we know about
search systems in whole? It is mechanism of web pages indexation and so one.
But all of us know that it is more extensible term.
For example:
Yahoo.
Yahoo – the main office of the company is allocated in California. The company takes the second place as to popularity in the world among search systems, and the first place as to number of the users (345 million), registered on portal Yahoo which provides with the list of services, such as Mail Yahoo, Games Yahoo, Music Yahoo and so on.
Originally
Yahoo has been created as the simple directory which contained site references in the Internet. This directory receives popularity and extends very fast, so Jerry and David should break it in a category – during that time, it was revolution – the hierarchical index Network has been broken in subjects: "Computers", "Government", “Culture and the Society”. (This tools remained till now in some kind of directory Yahoo the Directory). In the autumn 1994 directory contained more than 1 million from inquiries and approximately 100.000 thousand from users.
Investments into a known and developing resource became adults, as their popularity. In April 1995
Yahoo the investment fund, Capital letter Sequoia has given a two-level part, but Young and Philo has decided to end their research in postgraduate study and to devote all their free time of the company.
Yahoo used
Google company technologies for the realization of their search system, but in February 2004 all the agreements with Google have been cancelled. However, after several years the company succeeded to become the leader in the sphere of the e-search.