We would like to acknowledge some of the people and organizations that have helped Yahoo! along the way...

Business Partners

Kana Communications Kana is a leading provider of online customer communications software. They provide Yahoo! with inbound/outbound email services that help us keep in touch with our customers. Venture Law Group Behind every good company, there's a good lawyer. Venture Law Group, located in Menlo Park, California, is Yahoo!'s provider for legal and other professional services. Perkins Coie LLP Perkins Coie LLP is one of the West Coast's leading Internet and technology law firms, serving fast-moving clients like Yahoo! from 13 offices in the United States and Asia. Fleishman-Hillard Inc. Fleishman-Hillard Inc., based in St. Louis, is the largest public relations firm in the United States and the fifth-largest firm internationally. Fleishman-Hillard is Yahoo!'s public-relations firm of record. Reuters New Media, Inc. Reuters New Media is a division of Reuters, Inc., responsible for covering multimedia and online media. Reuters New Media supplies Yahoo! with continuously updated newsfeeds. FreeBSD Inc. FreeBSD makes an ideal Internet or Intranet server. It provides robust network services, even under the heaviest of loads, and uses memory efficiently to maintain good response times for hundreds, or even thousands, of simultaneous user processes. Network Appliance, Inc. NetApp filers, the simple server solution, speed up response time on the Web. In other words, NetApp is the ideal partner for Yahoo! and the hundreds of other high-performance users they serve--simply, of course. TIBCO Inc. TIBCO, located in Palo Alto, CA., invented the patented Enterprise Publish-Subscribe computing paradigm which enables businesses everywhere to access the information they need in realtime, anytime. TIBCO is Yahoo!'s provider of stock-quote data. GlobalCenter GlobalCenter, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is the First Global Digital Distribution Company. Sequoia Capital Sequoia was started in 1972. Sequoia and its extensive set of contacts provide a range of support for young, private companies at any stage of their development. Sequoia has invested in more than 350 companies. Some of these, like Cisco Systems, Apple Computer and Oracle, have become household names and epitomize Silicon Valley. Sequoia backed Yahoo! in March of 1995. Palm Computing®, Inc. Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com company, provides handheld computing solutions that are simple, easy-to-use and extremely portable, like the Palm VII connected organizer, which allows Yahoo!s to use People Search anytime, anywhere.

Public Domain Software

Yahoo! has benefited immensely from the public domain software available on the Net. We'd like to acknowledge some of the important components that we use at Yahoo!. Perl - most of our custom code is written in Perl, an awesome, quick way to code. It does everything! Mosaic - this is what got us started. Tcl/Tk/Tcl-DP - Graphical utilities, communication scripts and socket-based programs. GNU Tool Suite - Emacs our editor of choice, gcc our compiler of choice, cool software. FreeBSD - most of our web servers run FreeBSD. Python - A powerful and simple scripting language. web development was never faster.

Individual Efforts

User feedback has made Yahoo! what it is today. The people who've contributed are too numerous to mention, but a few deserve special acknowledgement: Ed Kubatis wrote the original version of the Random Yahoo Link script. Paul Hoffman contributed valuable suggestions and feedback in reorganizing the Computers and Internet category. Paul Burt supplied a wealth of friendly, useful information to help organize radio stations. Scott Banister simplified the process of adding a URL to several internet catalogs including Yahoo!, by maintaining the service Submit It!. To everyone that sent suggestions, comments, compliments, and constructive criticisms, you have our heartfelt thanks.