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While studying at Standford together, Filo & Yang created a list of their favorite sites arranged into topics and created a search engine that found sites withthe use of keywords. History of Yahoo!
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Renamed the site after the number of links and users grew, Yahoo! stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"
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Sequoia Capital originally invest $2 million
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Money went towards building the "Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building" , a research, teaching and lab building.
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Yahoo! filed a patent lawsuit against Facebook for over 10 patents; Facebook counter sues
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Former Google executive Mayer replaces Rick Levinsohn as CEO, becoming the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company
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