Yahoo! was developed by David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. They started their guide in April 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they found that their home-brewed lists were becoming too long and unwieldy. During 1994 they converted Yahoo! into a customized database designed to serve the needs of the thousands of users that began to use the service through the closely bound Internet community.

Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc. is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates America Online (with more than 25 million members) and CompuServe (with more than 2.8 million members), the company's two worldwide Internet services, several leading Internet brands including ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and Digital City, Inc. and MapQuest.

SYMPATICO is the number one destination site in Canada. A multi-award winning, bilingual site, SYMPATICO features Canada411 - the nation's phone book, NewsExpress,TV Guide Live, Canadian Living, Travelocity, HealthCentral and a host of other interesting niche content areas.

By analyzing the activity of millions of previous Internet searchers, Direct Hit determines the most relevant sites for your search request. Direct Hit empowers millions of Internet users to automatically organize the Internet as they search. Direct Hit is a subsidiary of Ask Jeeves, Inc.