[Week 10] Search Engines (Yahoo!)

After reading the history of Yahoo!, I found the similarities to Google. I mean both were born of two Stanford students. I guess we can thank the institution for the web monsters we have today. It is interesting to hear about how something like this gets started. No one understands the web. No one knows exactly what consumers want or what the next big thing will be...or even SHOULD be for that matter. It absolutely crazy. There's no way to forecast or predict these things. I really wonder how they pitched this to all the bigs they met with. I guess numbers don't lie...and investors just care about investing in something that has just the slightest potential to be big.

I remember Yahoo! growing up though...when I was still still on a Windows 95 PC. It was interesting...we didn't say "Yahoo" anything to find it. I still remember using the yellow pages to find numbers and locations around this time. I remember using encyclopedias. I remember using Encarta when that came out since it was on the computer rather than using books. Its just crazy how far we have come in just over ten years. I cannot imagine what childhood will be like for my children. They will probably have NO similarities between theirs and mine. I guess that's what we have to come to terms with living in these days. Amazing stuff =).