6 Reasons Why Yahoo! Failed

Sylvain Saurel
Aug 17, 2019 · 11 min read

Founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo! was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. The company has grown rapidly to become a full-featured Web portal with a host of services covering most user needs with the search engine Yahoo! Search around which was grafted Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News or Yahoo! Finance to name just a few of the many services offered by Yahoo!.