I need the meaning to Yahoo abbrevation
2007-07-22 23:51:16 · 5 answers · asked by Prabhu N 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Who would know better than Yahoo! themselves?
Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."
The link below is to the Yahoo! Media Relations page and explains it all.
2007-07-24 11:07:32 · answer #1 · answered by Chewie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yahoo! Early history (1994-1996)
In January 1994, Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang 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".
Its URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.
2007-07-23 00:15:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is a word - neither an abbreviation nor does it have one. You can look up the meaning yourself in any dictionary.
2007-07-23 01:05:37 · answer #3 · answered by chameleon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I took it to mean a saying of excitement. Yahoo! I am happy!
2007-07-22 23:59:02 · answer #4 · answered by Shaad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Yahoo" doesn't have an abbreviation, nor is it the abbreviation of anything. It is a fully spelled-out word and a word in its own right.
2007-07-23 00:09:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋