To make finding information easier, he and some fellow students began compiling the addresses of websites from all over the world into a directory, rather like an Internet telephone book. To their surprise the directory, named "Yahoo!" after the characters in Gulliver's Travels, became an Internet sensation.
為了方便搜尋，他和同學把全球網站的網址蒐集在一個類似網路電話簿的目錄下，以《格列佛遊記》中的人物「雅虎（Yahoo）」為名，不料竟然造成網際網路大震撼。