When I first used it, it was a great resource because there really weren&#x27;t search engines and so directory sites were the way to find the &quot;interesting&quot; pages for a topic.  At the time, Yahoo! was run on a server called akebono.stanford.edu.<p>I don&#x27;t think Yahoo had much to offer after the web moved from directories to search, they mostly because a content provider that monetized their high level of traffic (yahoo was a big destination on the web for a lot of people).