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Old 28th Sep 2012, 09:36
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Originally Posted by ExSp33db1rd
Yes, I've had had the Yahoo! 'verify' request, too - don't even look at them.

Never wanted Yahoo! - stupid name - but our dear Telecom changed to getting themselves transmitted via Yahoo some years ago, all downhill since.
Answer: Yahoo! (spelled with an exclamation mark) is short for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". This odd and rather long name was coined in 1994 by two electrical engineering PhD candidates at Stanford University: David Filo and Jerry Yang.

The original name: "David's and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", was appropriate, but not exactly catchy. They used the dictionary to come up with “Yahoo!”, a term that anyone can remember and say with ease. More importantly, Jerry and David said they liked the definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

In the end, the word Yahoo! did roughly describe it as a web search directory. The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo! database was arranged in directory layers. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "source of truth and wisdom". And "officious" described the many office workers who would use the Yahoo! database while surfing from work.
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