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2006-08-31 01:39:04 · 4 answers · asked by ysaremian 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
YAHOO is an abbreviation which stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
http://webopedia.com/TERM/Y/Yahoo.htm
http://dict.die.net/yahoo/
http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=Yahoo&i=55137,00.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo
Please visit the above pages to know in detail.
2006-08-31 04:38:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
Yahoo! started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", a web site featuring a directory of other sites, organized in a hierarchy (rather than a searchable index of pages). It was renamed "Yahoo!" shortly thereafter. "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" is 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."[1] As the backronymed version of the name implies, it was not the first directory of its kind, but it was the first to become widely popular as "the" directory of the fledgling Web.
2006-08-31 08:44:27 · answer #2 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it mean name given by swift (in gullivers travels)to members of a race of inferior human being with the habit of animals : hence,detestable person with bestial habits
2006-08-31 09:21:02 · answer #3 · answered by saman t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just a catchy brand name
2006-08-31 08:44:24 · answer #4 · answered by Voxtar 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋