Jerry Yang was born in 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan, with the name of Yang Chih Yuan. At the age of 10 years, he "just" an immigrant from Taiwan. With his mother and sister, they migrated and settled in San Jose, California, United States. His father had died when he was two years old. When he first entered school in San Jose, he only had one English language vocabulary, shoe (shoe). As adults, the college at the University of Stanford in 1990, and earned his bach elor and master's in 4 years. At the end of 1993, Jerry continued education Ph.D. program Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. There, Jerry Yang met with sekampusnya friend David Filo.
Through a friendship with David Filo, Jerry Yang began to like surfing the internet activities, to spend time for hours in front of the computer. As a result, abandoned their learning activities.
At the time surfing activities, they are often difficult to find something they need in this virtual world. So in February 1994, they began diligently to collect the links to create an index of Web sites favorite. These activities they do in the trailer on the campus of Stanford University. In a short time, they have more time to create links from your favorite sites to create the doctoral dissertations of the program they use.
Finally, the list of links from sites that they had discovered they had created had become too long and too much, so they divide it into categories-Ketegori. When the categories that did not meet, also made a sub-subcategories. That was the beginning of the birth of the concept of making Yahoo!.
By the time first made, they gave the name of the site Jerry `s Guide to the World Wide Web, but the name is too long for the name of a site. Then, after looking for a name that is considered good in the directory that they created, they decided to use the name of Yahoo, which stands for yet another hierarchical oficious oracle. The initial purpose of making the site as a tool to search for something on the internet or search engines.
At first, they use it for personal gain. However, they later realized was that the index which they set the site can be used by others as the first point of departure along the web site. This website visitors and even more extraordinary acclaim on the Internet. Knowing many people are accessing the Yahoo!, So they made him become a regular database and developed a kind of search engine software to run it.
Because there is no capital, they use computers owned by universities for this activity. Data stored on a computer that Jerry Yang has a nickname "Akebono". Search engine was placed in the computer David Filo who had nicknames "Konishiki". Both nicknames are derived from the names of famous Hawaiian wrestlers their idol.
In the fall of 1994, the site started getting hits record as many as 1 million visitors per day. That's what makes the computer network infrastructure at the university of traffic burdened. No wonder if the university officials asking them to rent a server (hosting) out to run the "business" they were, in order to more freely again.
Now, Yahoo! has become the world company engaged in the communications, commercial and Internet-based media. Each month there are 232 million Internet users worldwide who use the services Yahoo!, Ranging from search engines, portals, e-mail free, online business, to manufacture and lease the site. Yahoo! Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA has been standing at 25 locations spread across the continent of Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada, and of course the United States. The result was huge profits generated by Jerry Yang with Yahoo! What makes a Taiwanese immigrant has become a millionaire.
According to Fortune.com, rich man with the original name Chih-Yuan Yang was in the year 2000 about 5.85 billion U.S. dollars. Purchased their home for $ 1.9 million U.S. dollars, is located in Los Altos, west San Jose with five bedrooms and overlooks the Bay of San Francisco. Nevertheless, he did not forget at his alma mater. Along with David Filo, he donated 2 million to his almamater.He is one of Sang Milyader....!!!
