2006-10-25 01:20:47 · 20 answers · asked by Vinay T 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Definitions of Yahoo on the Web:
•a combination search engine and search index to information on the World Wide Web.
•Acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" containing thousands of computers linked to the Internet.
•A loutish male person.
•A Web search engine that categorises the results, found at www.yahoo.com.
•1. the grey-crowned babbler, Pomatostomus temporalis of Australia and New Guinea, having a grey crown with two broad, white stripes. 2. the name of an Aboriginal evil spirit. 3. a loud-mouthed yob.
•A very popular Web portal and web-based email provider. Other major web-based email providers are Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail services.
(One of the best web directories for business opportunity seekers. Top
•A web site that provides a directory listing of the most popular web sites.
•one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
•a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
•In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, a yahoo is a vile and savage creature, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of the Houyhnhnms far preferable. Hence the term "yahoo" has become a general term of insult, much along the lines of "cretin".
•Yahoo! Inc. is an American computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, a web directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail.
•It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
•Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant messaging client and protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email.
•Yahoo instant messenger also includes a security feature which allows the user to be "invisible" to whoever they choose.
2006-10-25 01:46:44 · answer #1 · answered by kizkat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo
I don't think there's anyone in my age group who hasn't used Yahoo or doesn't know what Yahoo is (I'm 25). We take this wonderful Internet tool for granted, often without knowing how it all started and not really caring how it did. But the history of Yahoo is really fascinating.
Yahoo was originally founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang, Stanford university students, and it started as a student project, a hobby. The two (electrical engineering) students, Filo and Yang, developed the original Internet guide to help them keep track of things that they liked on the Internet. Since they liked more and more things on the Internet their guide was growing in size, eventually, becoming so large that they had to break the subjects down and group them into categories and subcategories.
This was, essentially, the concept behind Yahoo.
The first website that Yang and Filo started was called: "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" and with time the site was rechristened Yahoo. The meaning of the word according to wikipedia's (a free on-line encyclopedia) definition is: "In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, a yahoo is a vile and savage creature, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of the Houyhnhnms far preferable. Hence the term "yahoo" has become a general term of insult, much along the lines of "cretin".
The founders insist that the meaning is a number of different things, it is an acronym, it is also a meaning of someone rude… it is their creation.
After some time hundreds of people started to access their website guide, beyond fellow students at Stanford and once the word spread around Yahoo! gained a huge following and an audience reaching thousands of visitors.
Because of its popularity the founders realized that they had a business on their hands and in 1995 the duo incorporated their business and met with some Silicon Valley businessmen. Eventually they connected with Sequoia Capital (Apple Computer, Atari, Oracle) who agreed to fund Yahoo!
Today Yahoo! Is a leading search engine that offers network services to more than 232 million people, monthly..
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States.
2006-10-25 02:00:22 · answer #2 · answered by SARATH C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DICTIONARY MEANING OF WORD
Yahoo
n.
1in Swift‘s Gulliver‘s Travels, any of a race of brutish, degraded creatures subject to the Houyhnhnms and having the form and all the vices of man: see also HOUYHNHNM
2[y3] a person who is variously thought of as being coarse, uneducated, unrefined, anti-intellectual, crudely materialistic, etc.
SYNONYM: barbarian, brute, savage;
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American internet services company. It operates an Internet portal and provides a full range of products and services including a search engine, the Yahoo! Directory and Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo on January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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."
for more details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo
2006-10-25 01:26:00 · answer #3 · answered by asdf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YAHOO :- a combination search engine and search index to information on the World Wide Web.
2006-10-25 06:15:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are on yahoo right now
2006-10-25 01:22:33 · answer #5 · answered by silverearth1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A yahoo is a humanoid being from book four of "Gulliver's Travels."
2006-10-25 02:07:01 · answer #6 · answered by willow oak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is a free email service, with a host of add-on services, all mostly free.It is aguably the world's best email service.
2006-10-25 01:40:20 · answer #7 · answered by viren k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yahoos are characters from the adventures of Gulliver... the under-evolved humans on the land where horses (the Houhynhynm) speak...
try this link:
http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/yahoo1.html
2006-10-25 01:23:35 · answer #8 · answered by ╠╬╣ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am reminding of Shammi Kapoor's song, with starts with his yelling as 'Yahoo!!!'. May be Yahoo! got inspired from that song.
2006-10-27 00:53:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
an email account where you can email your friends and family anywhere in the world
and its free
you can register at the yahoo homepage or the mail page
2006-10-25 01:25:13 · answer #10 · answered by lonely heart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋