2007-03-05 11:51:46 · 27 answers · asked by Liberal City 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
This is a trivia question I suppose. I already know that answer. I want to see if other people know!
2007-03-05 11:52:59 · update #1
Yes it stands for something :)
2007-03-05 11:55:50 · update #2
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
2007-03-05 11:54:40 · answer #1 · answered by x_RadiantEclipse_x 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it's the name of it
2007-03-05 19:54:57 · answer #2 · answered by Flowers 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." The name can also be a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".
2007-03-05 20:01:43 · answer #3 · answered by khorat k 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo! (spelled with an exclamation mark) is short for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". This odd and rather long name was coined in 1994 by two Electrical Engineering PhD candidates at Stanford University: David Filo and Jerry Yang.
The original name: "David's and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", was appropriate, but not exactly catchy.
2007-03-05 19:56:10 · answer #4 · answered by Mystee_Rain 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In January 1994, Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang (æ¥è´é ) and David Filo created a website named "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web". Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other web sites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." The name can also be a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"
"Yahoo" had already been trademarked for barbecue sauce, knives (by EBSCO Industries) and human propelled watercraft (by Old Town Canoe Co.). Therefore, in order to get the trademark, Yang and Filo added the exclamation mark to the name. However, the exclamation mark is often incorrectly omitted when referring to Yahoo!.
So, to answer your question:
Yahoo! stands for "Yet Another Hiearchical Officious Oracle"!
2007-03-05 20:08:05 · answer #5 · answered by Soccer Lover 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle,
2007-03-05 19:55:12 · answer #6 · answered by shane 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yimp Awsome Hannibalism OMG Oodles
2007-03-05 19:54:58 · answer #7 · answered by FerretLover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle :-)
2007-03-05 19:58:14 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ ltlsunny ♥ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I've been attached with Yahoo for a very long time now - around 8 years I would say and I love it. So yes as mentioned by some of the guys above it's:
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"Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".
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and was suggested in 1994 by David Filo and Jerry Yang, two Electrical Engineering PhD candidates at Stanford University.
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2007-03-05 20:11:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Y Are Hairy Ogres Online?
2007-03-05 19:56:45 · answer #10 · answered by popcorninmytooth 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋