What is the meaning of the word 'yahoo' ?
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Yahoo: noun: \n\n1. (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.  \n2. (lowercase) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.  \n3. (lowercase) a coarse or brutish person.  \n[Origin: coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)] \n--------------------------------------------------------------------\nDefinition:   savage \nSynonyms:   beast, bigot, boor, brute, cannibal, clod, hooligan, hun, ignoramus, lout, monster, philistine, rascal, ruffian, troglodyte, vandal, yahoo \nAntonyms:   citizen, native \nSource:   Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)\nCopyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
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I've found Yahoo's dictionary to be short and simple definitions.
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definety yahooanswers
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yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yahoo is an ancient african vowel for Idiots Paradise
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In Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver visited Houyhnhnma land where the horses ruled. The primative humans there are called Yahoos.\n\nAs far as the web site, their media relations page says:\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\nThe exclamation point is part of the trademark.
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Not only that, but from now on whenever you get a cup of coffee to go on top of the styrofoam coffee cup will be the words "Coffee provided by Yahoo".  If you go to get gas at a gas station on top of the pump will be "Gas provided by Yahoo".  When you get dressed tomorrow morning you will see "Underwear provided by Yahoo", "Shirt provided by Yahoo", "Pants provided by Yahoo". When you look in the mirror across your forehead will the the words "Victim of Yahoo".\n\nYou're toasted.
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It is this "do you yahoo" and here is the source code. But what it is for I would ask yahoo staff.\n\n\n\n<html><head><title>do you yahoo?</title></head>\n<body>\n<h1>do you yahoo?</h1>\n</body></html>\n\n<!-- pa4.ads.dcn.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Mon Mar  6 16:00:29 PST 2006 -->
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because yahoo serves people.
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Yahoo stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle\nas for the rest...it didn't make any sense. sorry
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Yahoo! was incorporated in March of 1995.  \nYahoo! was created in January of 1994.
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SPIM!\n\nI'd like to introduce you to the "Block" feature of Yahoo! Messenger.  :-D
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something wrong with the yahoo system
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thts a nice question:\nmost of the people take yahoo as just a portal \nRead more about it:\n\nYahoo! 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."[1] (For this reason the word "Yahoo!" should be pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable.) 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. The "yet another" phrasing goes back at least to the Unix utility yacc, whose name is an acronym for "yet another compiler compiler".\n\nYahoo! had its initial public offering on April 12, 1996, selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each.\n\nAs Yahoo's popularity has increased, so has the range of features it offers, making it a kind of one-stop shop for all the popular activities of the Internet. These now include: Yahoo! Mail, a Web-based e-mail service, an instant messaging client, a very popular mailing list service (Yahoo! Groups), online gaming and chat, various news and information portals, online shopping and auction facilities. Many of these are based at least in part on previously independent services, which Yahoo has acquired - such as the popular GeoCities free Web-hosting service, Rocketmail, and various competing mailing list providers such as eGroups. Many of these take-overs were controversial and unpopular with users of the existing services, as Yahoo! often changed the relevant terms of service. An example of this would be their claiming intellectual property rights for the content on their servers, which the original companies had not done.\n\nAt the pinnacle of the Internet boom in the year 2000, the cable news station CNBC reported that Yahoo! Inc. and eBay were in discussions to initiate a 50/50 merger [2].\n\nYahoo! has partnerships with telecommunications and Internet providers - such as BT in the UK, Rogers in Canada and SBC ,Verizon [3]and BellSouth in the US - to create content-rich broadband services to rival those offered by AOL. The company offers a branded credit card, Yahoo! Visa, through a partnership with First USA.\n\nBeginning in late 2002, Yahoo! began to bolster its search services by acquiring relevant companies. In December 2002, Yahoo! acquired Inktomi, and in July 2003, it acquired Overture Services, Inc. and its subsidiaries AltaVista and AlltheWeb. On February 18, 2004, Yahoo! dropped Google-powered results and returned to using its own technology to provide search results.\n\nAs of 2005 Yahoo!'s news message boards have gained something of a cult following. Attached to every story is a discussion board, yet rarely are the posts pertinent to the story. Often, the posts are deliberately outrageous, attempting to provoke angry responses which, in turn, lead to more offensive posts and so on. No news story, however sacrosanct, is spared.\n\nIn June 2005 Yahoo! acquired blo.gs, a service based on RSS feed aggregation, primarily from weblogs (hence the name), which produces a simple list (and also an RSS feed thereof) of freshly updated Weblogs, ordered according to recentness of update. blo.gs was the first Internet company hosted on a domain hack Yahoo! acquired, del.icio.us being the second.
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Yahoo! Inc. NASDAQ: YHOO is a computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, the Yahoo! Directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.\n\nAccording to Alexa Internet and Netcraft, both of which are Web trends companies, Yahoo! is the most visited website on the Internet today. The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005.
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What do you mean by yahoo or msn text? The webpages are served in HTML, that's plain text. What do you want?
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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."