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2007-05-02 01:43:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
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. Today, David and Jerry, who are in their mid-thirties, are billionaires. Neither of them ever went back to finish their PhD studies, but they are both ranked by Forbes as two of the 400 wealthiest men in America.
2007-05-02 02:44:58 · answer #1 · answered by ms.redd 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Young Americans Hanging Out Online
2007-05-02 01:48:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Redd ruled out my point. Huh! Ok ..it's
Yet Another Heirarchy Officio Oracle. Created in 1994 by Stanford University Ph.D students, Jerry Yang and David Filo.
2007-05-02 05:34:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not an abbreviation for some thing, I think.
In English the Noun YAHOO means: A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture.
2).Yahoo ( pronounced as yaa hoo) means ;A widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance.
As said by one of our friends it is in Gulliver's Travels.
It means there in the novel: One of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift, (by the by, Jonathan swift is the writer of The Gulliver's Travels, Please)
2007-05-02 09:35:21 · answer #4 · answered by Radhakrishna( prrkrishna) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle .
2007-05-02 02:10:31 · answer #5 · answered by MEENAKSHI KALA 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YAHOO means :-Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
2007-05-03 19:25:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
YAHOO!- Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
.......Enjoy
2007-05-02 02:05:02 · answer #7 · answered by Bhagavathi D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word "yahoo" originally came from the book "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift.
2007-05-02 01:55:00 · answer #8 · answered by surffsav 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can find out what an abbreviation is standing for.
2007-05-02 01:50:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You didn't say please... Sorry, I won't answer. Too rude.
2007-05-02 02:03:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋