به چه معناست؟Yahoo

[CentralWeb]

این کلمه به وسیله جاناتان سوایفت خلق شد و در کتابش یعنی سفرهای گالیور از آن استفاده کرد.یاهو اسم یکی از شخصیت های داستان سفرهای گالیور بود
این شخصیت کارتونی از این که در جمع ظاهر شود و کاری انجام دهد به شدت تنفر داشت.جری یانگ و دیوید فیلو - موسسین یاهو - این اسم را برگزیدند چون فکر
می کردند که خودشان یاهو هستند

[Ines]

تا اونجا که من میدونم Yahoo مخفف Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle است.

[Mohsen1001]

Yahoo! Inc. got its start in 1994 as the hobby of two Stanford University students who were writing their doctoral dissertations. Jerry Yang and David Filo, both of whom were candidates in Stanford's electrical engineering doctoral program, spent much of their free time surfing the World Wide Web and cataloging their favorite Web sites. In doing so, they created a Web site of their own that linked Internet users to Yang's and Filo's favorite places in cyberspace. At that time, their site was called "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web."

As their Web site grew, both in size and in the number of links from which it was composed, the number of people who used the site also increased dramatically. Thus, Yang and Filo began spending more and more time on their new hobby, gradually converting the homemade list into a customized database that users could search to locate Web sites related to specific interests. The database itself was originally located on Yang's Stanford student computer workstation, named "akebono," while the search engine was located on Filo's computer, "konishiki" (the two computers were named after legendary Hawaiian sumo wrestlers).

As for the transformation of the database's name from "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" to "Yahoo!," the two men became bored with the original tag and set about to change it late one night while bumming around in their trailer on the Stanford campus. Looking to mimic the phrase/acronym "Yet Another Compiler Compiler" (YACC), a favorite among Unix aficionados, Yang and Filo came up with " Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" (YAHOO) .

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