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What Is Yahoo!?

Yahoo the complex internet organism has complicated name. Word "Yahoo" is shortcut for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". It was coined by PhD candidates at Stanford University: David Filo and Jerry Yang.


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kiran
very informative ,otherwise would never came to know th meaning of th most trusted helpful website
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kiran at 01:33PM, Mar 16th 2009.
Mikki...
one more place of informity?
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Mikki... at 06:33PM, Apr 14th 2009.
debrain
I never knew that was what Yahoo stood for. Always thought it was just a sound people made for joy
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debrain at 07:09PM, Apr 18th 2009.
preetee
feeling great to know.. i could never thought yahoo might stand for some abbreviation
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preetee at 07:30AM, Feb 5th 2010.

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