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Yahoo s Canadian Roots

Posted on February 05, 2008

As an increasing number of people start to write epitaphs for Yahoo as a standalone company, you re starting to see a lot of nostalgic stories on how David Filo and Jerry Yang started the company in 1994 from the bowels of Stanford University.So what s the Canadian connection?Although few people remember it, Waterloo, Ont.-based Open Text was Yahoo s early search engine partner. Yup, Open Text was originally a search player. Here s what Open Text CEO Tom Jenkins had to say about the deal when it was announced in 1995: As the premiere guide to the online world, Yahoo! is doing exactly...

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