the website name is YAHOO how did they chose its name?
2006-07-16 23:09:37 · 4 answers · asked by haya D 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
Yahoo! (spelled with an exclamation mark) is short for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". This odd and rather long name was coined in 1994 by two Electrical Engineering PhD candidates at Stanford University: David Filo and Jerry Yang.
The original name: "David's and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", was appropriate, but not exactly catchy. They used the dictionary to come up with “Yahoo!”, a term that anyone can remember and say with ease. More importantly, Jerry and David said they liked the definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
In the end, the word Yahoo! did roughly describe it as a web search directory. The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo! database was arranged in directory layers. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "source of truth and wisdom". And "officious" described the many office workers who would use the Yahoo! database while surfing from work.
Funny, I was thinking of asking a similar question earlier today.
2006-07-16 23:13:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"
a backronym for this name, but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
2006-07-16 23:13:57 · answer #2 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this guy saw a wonderful dream at nite n early morning he woke up n yelled. yaaaaaaaaaaahoooooooooo!! Datz how it came into existence....lol
2006-07-16 23:12:50 · answer #3 · answered by AreAce 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its word usually indiacate Fun..........Yahooooooo
Its really cool like Google
2006-07-16 23:15:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋