what is the meaning and origin of Yahoo ?

Answer 1

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." 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. Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono", while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki", both named after famous sumo wrestlers. The "yet another" phrasing goes back at least to the Unix utility yacc, whose name is an acronym for "yet another compiler compiler".

Answer 2

First time it was used was in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift. A Yahoo was like a cave man in a land run by talking horses.
They were dirty, savage and motivated by animal instincts (sleeping, eating and sex were high on the list).
Gulliver, when telling of his story back in England, asked why men and women couldn't go around without clothes, and the listeners said it would be terrible for society. So Gulliver said, we may all be Yahoos, just better clothed

Answer 3

Someone created yahoo and meaning is to have a multi-media page consisting of a search engine, music, mail, and much more.

Answer 4

http://www.rankforsales.com/n-ay/719-seo-aug-18-04.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!

Answer 5

yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!