David Filo Quotes

Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purpose - to be your guide around the web. You may not know how much you motivate us every day by using our products and sharing your ideas, but you do. Thank you.

Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.

First 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.

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search ... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.

Search 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.

Thousands 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.

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access.

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

Online advertising is display plus search.

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.

We're not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.