2006-06-21 06:00:33 · 33 answers · asked by candylover 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Magazines
The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but the creators chose "Yahoo" because they liked the general definition: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
2006-06-21 06:02:35 · answer #1 · answered by kjgartman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As Swift wrote in his 'Gullivers Travels', a Yahoo was anything wild, uncouth, irrational, rude, immoral and unsophisticated, defined as such by a race of intelligent talking horses (called 'Houyhnhnms', the name meant to imitate a horse's whinny), referring to a race of fallen humanity of this description found in the book. The Yahoos in 'Gullivers Travels' were to represent man should he fall to the level of animals, while as the horses live by wisdom and rationality, and are set to a degree higher by never allowing their animal emotions to overpower their reason, though they are so dependent on it they are dogmatic in their ignorance to accept anything that is irrational or evil. In this story (which is often mistakenly taken for a childrens book) the title character is caught between the horses and the Yahoos, because he does not want to be aligned with those disgusting creatures he resembles, yet he admires the horses for their intelligence but is utterly miserable as he cannot be one of them. Once he experiences the life of the Yahoos and Houyhnhnms, Gulliver becomes more and more misanthropic, seeing (in his own eyes) how mankind is in its truest light.
I'm truly not sure why this very unflattering title was chosen for yahoo.com, whether to equate people with what they "are" (i.e., Yahoos) I have no idea. I am sure, or at least hope, the original intentions were sarcastically meant.
2006-06-22 09:42:52 · answer #2 · answered by trazom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo renamed "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" as "Yahoo!". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, which comes from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
2016-05-20 09:06:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many opinions. But best factor is YAHOO name abstract in
famous story called “Gulliver’s Travels”. This name can feel happiness.
And its Simply but, efficient.
2006-06-26 06:16:19 · answer #4 · answered by World 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's because the people are from Texas and Yahoo! is a common term here.
2006-06-22 09:18:26 · answer #5 · answered by skaterangels 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coz this is owned by a veteran and very famous Indian actor who was pictured in a charts rocking song titled YAHOO. This gave him the required fame. Hence he named this after that.
2006-06-21 06:12:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I heard it, they wanted to call themselves Yoohoo!, but they ran into a huge trademark issue, so they went with Yahoo! which is an exclamatory in American slang dating back to the Old West.
2006-06-21 06:03:53 · answer #7 · answered by Immortal Blade 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is meant a very huge number 10*10 Power 100...
2006-06-21 06:05:27 · answer #8 · answered by PharmaAce 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to say it's because the people who made it up liked to Yoddle at each other. Cause all of the commercials were a guyu yoddling Yahooooooooooooooooooooo.
2006-06-21 06:05:40 · answer #9 · answered by Lilel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because yahoo means gay in turkish
2006-06-21 09:07:42 · answer #10 · answered by Rick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋