2006-12-13 05:17:51 · 10 answers · asked by roushaan t 1 in Environment
yahoo means to chear
yahoo is also a search engine
2006-12-14 00:16:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Short for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, Yahoo! is a World Wide Web directory started by David Filo and Jerry Yang at Stanford University. The two began compiling and categorizing Web pages in 1994. By 1996, they had one of the most popular Web sites and a very valuable commodity.
2006-12-13 05:45:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are on the Internet, you should know yahoo. You have come to yahoo answers. So you know what is yahoo.
If you want to know about yahoo as a company. See here http://info.yahoo.com/
Or the above answers say it all.
2006-12-13 05:53:13 · answer #3 · answered by The Last Paladin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definition:
rude person: somebody who is regarded as unruly, crude, or brutish, informal insult. (See above).
[Early 18th century. After the Yahoos in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)]
2006-12-13 05:25:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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 in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
According to Web trends companies Alexa Internet and Netcraft, Yahoo! is the most visited website on the Internet today with more than 412 million unique users. The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005.
History
Main article: History of Yahoo!
Current Yahoo! main page
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Current Yahoo! main page
Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale
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Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale
Security checkpoint at entrance to headquarters parking lot.
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Security checkpoint at entrance to headquarters parking lot.
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. 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".
Yahoo! had its initial public offering on April 12, 1996, raising $338 million, by selling 26 million shares at USA$13 each. As Yahoo!'s popularity has increased, so has the range of features it offers, making it a kind of one-stop shop for all the popular activities of the Internet. These now include: Yahoo! Mail, a Web-based e-mail service, Yahoo! Messenger, an instant messaging client, a very popular mailing list service (Yahoo! Groups), online gaming and chat, various news and information portals, online shopping and online auction facilities. Many of these are based at least in part on previously independent services, which Yahoo! has acquired - such as the popular GeoCities free Web-hosting service, Rocketmail, and various competing mailing list providers such as eGroups. Many of these take-overs were controversial and unpopular with users of the existing services, as Yahoo! often changed the relevant terms of service. An example of this is their claiming intellectual property rights for the content on their servers, which the original companies had not done.
At the pinnacle of the Internet boom in the year 2000, the cable news station CNBC reported that Yahoo! and eBay were discussing a 50/50 merger.[2], Although the merger never materialised the two companies decided to form a marketing/advertising alliance six years later in 2006. [3]
Yahoo! has partnerships with telecommunications and Internet providers - such as BT in the UK, Rogers in Canada, and AT&T, Verizon[4] and BellSouth in the US - to create content-rich broadband services to rival those offered by AOL. The company offers a branded credit card, Yahoo! Visa, through a partnership with Chase.
Beginning in late 2002, Yahoo! began to bolster its search services by acquiring relevant companies. In December 2002, Yahoo! acquired Inktomi, and in July 2003, it acquired Overture Services, Inc. and its subsidiaries AltaVista and AlltheWeb.
In June 2005 Yahoo! acquired blo.gs, a service based on RSS feed aggregation, primarily from weblogs (hence the name), which produces a simple list (and also an RSS feed thereof) of freshly updated Weblogs, ordered according to recentness of update. blo.gs was the first Internet company hosted on a domain hack Yahoo! acquired, del.icio.us being the second.
2006-12-13 05:43:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo...never heard of it!
2006-12-13 05:19:37 · answer #6 · answered by Chasity 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Immoralized as exclamation by Shammi Kapoor.
2006-12-13 05:31:20 · answer #7 · answered by Titu66 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a website
2006-12-13 08:43:26 · answer #8 · answered by ♥♪♫Priya_akki™♫♪♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-13 05:28:01 · answer #9 · answered by autopilot 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yahoo!!! your on the internet!!
2006-12-13 05:21:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋