Jerry Yang and David Filo created Yahoo!, initially as a manually curated directory of web pages. The explosive scaling of the site quickly revealed that human curators could never manually categorize the exponentially growing internet, highlighting the absolute necessity for autonomous, algorithmic categorization engines.
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