how this site was named ....."yahoo"...---the reason?
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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."
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Because it's not an official Yahoo! site.
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This is because of yahoo fomart which is purposely for its member to ask questons and answers.
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The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet.\nBefore long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born.
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Both of those email addresses look fake, so its more likely the email doesn't originate from Yahoo. The username doesn't look remotely like something chosen by a human being, and my guess is that user name does not exist.\n\nMost of the headers of the email you normally see in an email client can be faked.
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well ok luks like the cat's out of the bag.\nthis " yahoo-trivia section" actually happens to be the meeting place 4 some of the gratest minds, secret agencies and super spies. \nif u think this is just some time pass questions we r discussing ur horribly mistaken. we r actually using codes 2 communicate. and since u hav blown our cover, we'll have to log out and register with new avitars. maybe a new site altogether to retain our identities and continue solving the troubles of the world.\nbut we r coming for u. over and out
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It basically showcases the attitude of the people who are employed by Yahoo. They are far to lazy to actually read something for themselves to see if it is, in fact, a violation. Many of these outrageous, bigoted, slanderous questions or quasi-questions that are posted come from avitars that are still on level 1. They don't care if they are suspended because they'll just create another and go back to spewing more of their filth.\n\nMeanwhile, the empty suits at Yahoo allow them to get away with their abuse of the rest of us. I have always had a wry sense of humor but I have to watch every single thing I present or get slammed by these phony abuse reports. I really wish that another web server would come up with a similar forum because I'd move in a heartbeat.
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sorry buddy -- answers.yahoo.com was built this year
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what are you talking about?? \non yahoo, myspace, what???\nits rather impossible to find out information about who uses what username.\nnot unless its in there profile
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it's a domain name, these odd name are used commonly by spammers to keep their names secret, after they are done sending all their spam, the sever shut-down, leaving withouth a trace...
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i never knew yahoo had that. They have a lil bit of everything sheesh
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Sorry YAHOO 1994 was around well before Google 1997 (three years was an eternity back then) and if you look at the home pages of each they offer similar service but are very very different in many ways.\n\ntimeline:  \n\nJerry Yang and David Filo created Yahoo in 1994. It started out as a listing of their favorite Web sites. What made it different was that each entry, in addition to the URL, also had a description of the page. Within a year the two received funding and Yahoo, the corporation, was created.\n\nGoogle was launched in 1997 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as part of a research project at Stanford University. It uses inbound links to rank sites. In 1998 MSN Search and the Open Directory were also started. The Open Directory, according to its Web site, "is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors." It seeks to become the "definitive catalog of the Web." The entire directory is maintained by human input.
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It a Filipino Yahoo! site.\nbut its not Yahoo!.\nIts somewhat like an online magazine for Filipinos. :D
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Do you Yahoo!?  My friend walked me through the set-up and the hardest part was finding a name no one else had! I think it's still FREE  FREE  FREE!!  Happy Friday to All.
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No, Big site like Yahoo registers many like named site to prevent phishing.\nYou will not that though you have typed yahoo.com./\nyou were redirected to yahoo.com/
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Yahoo runs this one, thereby allowing those who already have Yahoo accounts to simply pick up on this one, rather than having to sign up for a different website. Just a matter of convenience for Yahoo users. ;)
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Yahoo! started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" is a backronym for "yahoo!", 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."