why is yahoo called yahoo?
407410
The original name chosen was "www.yeeeeehaaaa.com", but that sounded too redneck-like. Next choice on the list was "www.google.com", but that domain was apparently already taken by a couple of pimply-faced teenagers who are probably jobless and homeless right now (if not already in jail). Upon hearing of the other guys' legal problems, the creators of this site gleefully exclaimed "YAHOO!!!" and they all high-fived each other just as a janitor was passing by the boardroom where this meeting was taking place. The janitor, still hung over from consuming a gallon of gin the previous everning, poked his head in the boardroom and said, "Yahoo? What the hell kinda name is THAT for a website?" And the rest is history. Sort of. :)
239496
Because yahoo deemed your name unsuitable, thought it wasn't in use, or some1 made a thousand complaints against it and it was automatically removed.\n\nR3dm0
992959
Because Yahoo is run by Americans, who have their own political agenda.
336411
Yahoo can explain how to do this.
1040564
Because you dont have the right on a privete sight, it is in an international format also (has no bearing).\n Would you let me in your house spit on your floor, curse at your kids, kick your dog, eat your food, heck sleep in your bed. It's your house and you are king as Yahoo is it king of its sight.
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When you use the Web or send an e-mail message, you use a domain name to do it. For example, the URL "http://www.yahoo.com" contains the domain name "yahoo.com". So does the e-mail address "xyz@yahoo.com." \nHuman-readable names like "yahoo.com" are easy for people to remember, but they don't do machines any good. All of the machines use names called IP addresses to refer to one another. For example, the machine that humans refer to as "www.yahoo.com" has the IP address "66.94.234.13". Every time you use a domain name, you use the Internet's domain name servers (DNS) to translate the human-readable domain name into the machine-readable IP address. During a day of browsing and e-mailing, you might access the domain name servers hundreds of times! \n\nDomain name servers translate domain names to IP addresses. That sounds like a simple task, and it would be -- except for five things: \n\nThere are billions of IP addresses currently in use, and most machines have a human-readable name as well. \nThere are many billions of DNS requests made every day. A single person can easily make a hundred or more DNS requests a day, and there are hundreds of millions of people and machines using the Internet daily. \nDomain names and IP addresses change daily. \nNew domain names get created daily. \nMillions of people do the work to change and add domain names and IP addresses every day. \nThe DNS system is a database, and no other database on the planet gets this many requests. No other database on the planet has millions of people changing it every day, either. That is what makes the DNS system so unique!
381435
So Yahoo can have a favorable business climate.  They prefer the almighty dollar to a people's right of self-determination.
369593
Yahoo is an ancient african vowel for Idiots Paradise
31988
Yahoo 360 in my opinion was the first service to compete with rising star, Google. Even though it does not compete with any of Google's services, Yahoo wanted to let everyone, including investors, that they're still cool. \nIt's also Yahoo 360 was the first service that was called Beta, a marketing scheme that Google first started. (To call something a Beta means to say something is still in testing mode. For some reason,  the word Beta appealed to many online users which is why initially the name of the service was called Yahoo 360).
614819
Yahoo because it is the oldest and has better interface.
581553
it should be yahoo.com.TH
405864
Basically, because the Internet encompasses so many different viewpoints, religions, opinions, and ideas, what Yahoo has created by allowing access to anyone, is a haven for the sane, insane, prejudiced, tolerant, Christians, non Christians, liberals, conservatives (you get the idea). When they disagree or annoy each other the abuse button gets clicked and the sheer number of reports makes it impossible to track and provide customer service for each one. \n\nLet us hope that they at least give consideration to reports before completely canceling an account.
659087
Why not? Yahoo is worldwide. Why do so many Americans think everything revoolves around them?
371289
I am wondering about that as well. Probably yahoo has done something for safety reasons.
137736
i asked this question and someone told me to add yahoo.com behind their nickname...haven't tried it yet though...
485674
You assume that someone used their real name when they joined Yahoo.  \n\nAlso, since people can use computers at libraries, friends' houses, work, and a host of other places, it may be very likely that you cannot determine who a Yahoo user is.
1146539
Why are you paying for Yahoo?