. Yahoo! tashar yanar gizo ce kuma kafar bincike ta Yanazar fizo da mai ba da sabis. An san ta ne da yawan kayayyaki da aiyuka, kamar injin binciken su, imel, saƙon gaggawa, da bidiyo, amma kuma abubuwan da ke cikin kayan su a labarai, hasashen yanayi,kuɗi da sauran bayanai. Yahoo! samun kuɗi daga tallace-tallace a cikin ayyukansu. A watan Janairun shekara ta alif 1994, Jerry Yang da David Filo sun kasance ɗaliban da suka kammala karatun Injiniyan lantarki a Jami'ar Stanford . A watan Afrilu na shekara ta alif 1994, "Jerry da David's Guide to the World Wide Web" an sake masa suna "Yahoo!", wanda sunan hukuma ya sake backronym shine "Duk da haka Wani Babban Jami'in Oraclechical Oracle". Filo da Yang sun ce sun zaɓi sunan ne saboda suna son cikakkiyar ma'anar kalmar, wacce ta fito daga tafiyar Gulliver ta Jonathan Swift: " rashin ladabi, mara unsophisticated da uncouth ". Adireshin URL ɗin shine akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo. Yang ya bayyana zaɓin sunan da cewa "Mun yi tsammanin ya dace da abin da muke yi.