Yahoo
2007-08-22 00:28:49 · 5 answers · asked by Esther Z 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
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.
Source(s):
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history....
2007-08-22 06:06:48 · answer #1 · answered by Chewie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation and global Internet services company. It provides a range of products and services including a web portal, a search engine, the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and posting. It was founded by Stanford University 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 traffic analysis companies (including Comscore, Alexa Internet and Netcraft), Yahoo! has been one of the most visited Web sites on the Internet[1], [2], with more than 412 million unique users.[citation needed] The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005, making it one of the most visited U.S. Web sites.[citation needed]
2007-08-23 10:32:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't stand for anything. It was named after a race of filthy morons in the book, Gulliver's Travels.
2007-08-22 00:33:51 · answer #3 · answered by Raven 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They stand for Political correctness and stunting democracy
The name stands for what they are ! a bunch of yahoos! lol
2007-08-22 00:33:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It stands for injustice and they are dictators not directors! Oh I feel better now!!
2007-08-22 00:36:31 · answer #5 · answered by tony testa 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋