2006-12-18 07:13:58 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yahoo comes from the ancient Greek word Ya, meaning computer and the ancient Greek word Hoo, which means program for asking questions.
2006-12-18 07:17:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It means like screaming YAHOO!!! Like Hurray...
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! has been 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. In November 2006 Yahoo has been battling with MySpace for the top U.S. visited website online[1].
2006-12-18 15:15:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Originally, before it became the portal for entertainment and web browsing that it is now, it began life as a simple exclaimation.
"Yahoo!"
It means "Yay! Something's Great! I'm Excited so much that I can't do anything but shout this nonsense word!"
2006-12-18 15:17:53 · answer #3 · answered by somewherein72 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "Yahoo" was one of the character/races that Gulliver encountered on his "Travels" (see/read "Gulliver's Travels"). The "Yahoos" were very unusual people who, if I recall correctly, had their faces on the trunk of their body (no heads, per se) and constructed their buildings from the roof down.
2006-12-18 15:19:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yahoo is an exclamation like my pants are blue yahoo! but no one says that or uses the word yahoo it used to be yahooligans
2006-12-18 15:16:00 · answer #5 · answered by california 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Woohoo
2006-12-18 15:16:19 · answer #6 · answered by Sue F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo-the best thing since sliced bread!
2006-12-18 15:19:24 · answer #7 · answered by ==== 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
2. (lowercase) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.
3. (lowercase) a coarse or brutish person.
2006-12-18 15:15:47 · answer #8 · answered by babydoll 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yay!
2006-12-18 15:15:55 · answer #9 · answered by Ana Erikson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its an exclamatory word used as a exclaimer.
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2006-12-18 15:15:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋