please ignore this if there is no such
2006-11-27 21:31:39 · 7 answers · asked by stylie 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Yahoo! is an abbreviation , it stands for :
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
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 Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
Refer the link from Yahoo! Media Relations below.
2006-11-27 21:49:58 · answer #1 · answered by Aqua 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo!
Short for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle!, YAHOO! was created February 1994 by two Standard University Ph.D. candidates David Filo and Jerry Yang.
but Yang and co-founder David Filo apparently looked up the word in the dictionary, and insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
Today, both Yang and Filo maintain the title of "Chief Yahoo."
The word was originally invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book, "Gulliver's Travels". In the book, it represents a peron who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human.
2006-11-28 06:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by vijaya l 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is not an abbreviation. It is a word by itself
Meaning of Yahoo - Expressing great joy or excitement
2006-11-28 05:50:36 · answer #3 · answered by Govinda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yet Another Hiearchial Officious Oracle
2006-11-28 05:52:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is an abbreviation.
2006-11-28 05:33:30 · answer #5 · answered by haute couture 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wondered that myself. I used to know it and I know that Yet Another Hierarchy Of Oddities is what I came up with but the last one is wrong I think.
2006-11-28 05:59:41 · answer #6 · answered by partout250 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Y!
2006-11-28 06:17:49 · answer #7 · answered by Bert H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋