Where did YAHOO! get the idea for its name?
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Yahoo is an ancient african vowel for Idiots Paradise
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The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki"—both named after legendary sumo wrestlers\n\nWhat's a Google? \n\n"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web
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Why not? Yahoo is worldwide. Why do so many Americans think everything revoolves around them?
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The website yahoo.com was founded by \nDavid Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1994.\nPresent Chairman, CEO, Director is Terry Samel.\n\nHope i have addressed to ur Q.
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Yes, but yahoo! is better
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I think Yahoo is making money off from this. It's all part of marketing tricks. Concept here is interaction and free apply of individual thoughts and advertise accordingly. If you go to Q&A search and type certain word... let's say "sex" for test. It would show all the Q&A related to "sex" as well as advertise on right side. So basically Yahoo is trying to increase it's exposure for more income.
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What is the Yahoo! Add model anyway?
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because yahoo serves people.
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YES ME!!!! \nHOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THAT NAME!?\nHEHE
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Everything about the Internet company Yahoo! screams fun – from the name itself to the bright purple colors, to the endless array of online services and distractions. Around the world they are associated with creativity, innovation and the free flow of ideas.\nI think that’s why it is so shocking to learn that Yahoo! has colluded with the repressive Chinese government to help identify Internet dissidents who were subsequently thrown in jail.\nI urge you to join me today by expressing outrage at Yahoo!’s participation in human rights abuses in China.\nThe details are shocking. Investigations by Amnesty International and others show that:\n• At the Chinese government’s request Yahoo! routinely censors search engine results \nin China -- without disclosing that the censorship has happened.\n• Yahoo!-disclosed private user information has allegedly been used to persecute at\nleast three political dissidents in China.\n• In one case, that of journalist Shi Tao, information turned over by Yahoo! was \nsubmitted as evidence in a trial that ended in a 10-year prison sentence. A primary\npiece of evidence was a private email Mr. Shi sent to the United States from\nhis Yahoo! email account.\nWe don’t really know how many voices have been silenced through Yahoo!’s collusion, or how many people have been rounded up. What we do know, and why we need your help, is that Yahoo! cannot hide behind the supposed realpolitik of working in China.\nRecent examinations of four American Internet technology companies operating in China– Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco -- suggest that Yahoo! has most actively aided repressive forces in China, by helping to jail political dissidents.\nNew York Times columnist and consistent voice for human rights Nicholas Kristof concludes “Yahoo! sold its soul and is a national disgrace.”\nYahoo! is not immune to public condemnation. Your demands for change will get the Internet giant’s attention.\nAmnesty demands that Yahoo! use its influence to secure prisoner of conscience Shi Tao's release and to stop any actions that could undermine human rights in any country in which it operates.\nEvery voice makes a difference. Please take action today.\nThanks for all you do.\nSincerely,\nBill Schulz\n\nExecutive Director
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Yahoo! started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", a web site featuring a directory of other sites, organized in a hierarchy (rather than a searchable index of pages). It was renamed "Yahoo!" shortly thereafter. "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" is a backronym for this name, but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
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Yahoo! is a public corporation and is thus owned by its stockholders
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Yahoo! is an abbreviation , it stands for :\nYet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle\n\nThe Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." \n\nRefer the link from Yahoo! Media Relations below.
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Yahoo co-founder David Filo Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!
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NFL.com of course, where do you think yahoo, and others got the idea?
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The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang [Yahoo! founders] insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki"—both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
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All of the information you are looking for can be found here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21\n\nYahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo, graduate students at Stanford, in January of 1994 and was originally called "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"