Who invented Yahoo?

Who invented Yahoo!Answers?

• Who actually invented Yahoo! in the first place, is it not Chinese?!

• Answer:

  Yahoo! Answers was based partly on Google's question and answer forum, which didn't last long once Yahoo got up to speed. And it was based on something called Ask Metafilter, which was founded by Matthew Haughey in 1999. Haughey wrote the software for the site himself, using Macromedia ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server.[1] From its early beginnings as a small community of webloggers who traded links, the weblog now enjoys international popularity. Members are permitted to make one post to the front page per day, which must feature at least one link. Members may then comment on these posts. Although membership was initially free and unrestricted, growing membership forced frequent extended closures of new-member signup. On November 18, 2004, Haughey reopened signups, but with a 5 USD life-time membership fee.[2] Although the number of registrations has topped 56,000, a design flaw in the counting process means that it counts users who abandoned the signup process mid way; the actual number of posters is smaller, clocking in at around 35,000 as of January 2008.[3] The number of non-members who have not or could not previously join, and who simply read and lurk, may be much higher. To my knowledge, it didn't have squat to do with Chinese anything.