Quandl as Yahoo Redux

In 1994 Jerry Yang and David Filo evolved their directory of web sites into something they called “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” which of course acronyms to “YAHOO”. Originally, Yahoo was a human-maintained directory of websites. Through the mid 1990s, every site indexed by Yahoo was evaluated and summarized by a human being. A search on Yahoo in 1995 presented a user not only with links (like a modern search engine does), but with a summary and commentary of each web site. For the period of time that Yahoo could keep up with the growth of the web, it was...