We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in.
David FiloWe're not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.
David FiloThousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.
David FiloSearch as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.
David FiloFirst of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.
David Filo