Who came up with the name Yahoo and why?
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There are many companies / brands / products whose names\nwere derived from strange circumstances.\n\nYahoo!\nThe word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his\nbook 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive\nin appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders\nJerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they\nconsidered themselves yahoos.\n\nMercedes\nThis was actually the financier's daughter's name.\n\nAdobe\nThis came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind\nthe house of founder John Warnock.\n\nApple Computers\nIt was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three\nmonths late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened\nto call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues\ndidn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.\n\nCISCO\nIt is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San\nFrancisco.\n\nCompaq\nThis name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ\nto denote a small integral object.\n\nCorel\nThe name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael\nCowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.\n\nGoogle\nThe name started as a joke boasting about the amount of\ninformation the search-engine would be able to search. It was\noriginally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by\n1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate\nstudents Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to\nan angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'\n\nHotmail\nFounder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web\nfrom a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia\ncame up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all\nkinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as\nit included the letters "html" - the programming language used to\nwrite web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with\nselective uppercasing.\n\nHewlett Packard\nBill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether\nthe company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or\nPackard-Hewlett.\n\nIntel\nBob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new\ncompany 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a\nhotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated\nELectronics.\n\nLotus (Notes)\nMitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus\nPosition' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of\nTranscendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.\n\nMicrosoft\nCoined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted\nto MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft,\nthe '-' was removed later on.\n\nMotorola\nFounder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company\nstarted manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio\ncompany at the time was called Victrola.\n\nORACLE\nLarry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project\nfor the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the\nproject was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give\nanswers to all questions or something such). The project was\ndesigned to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The\nproject eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to\nfinish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the\nname Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the\nsame name for the company.\n\nSony\nIt originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and\n'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.\n\nSUN\nFounded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym\nfor Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a\nmicrocomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to\nmanufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a\nUNIX-based OS for the computer.
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Who told Orkut is better than Yahoo...
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A "google" is the number 10^100. A "googleplex" is an even larger number 10^[(10)^100]\n\nGoogle is a listed company in the USA. Their primary goal is to provide a means for people to search for information available on the Internet. Secondary goals are to provide people with tools to manage their daily tasks, like email, Internet Voice Chatting, managing pictures, etc. Aside from their usual search page they have loads of specialist search pages to help narrow down the results.\n\nFor the company Yahoo, it stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". s an American 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.\nYahoo! started out as "Jerry'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, but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." 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\nCheck out some Photographs and Videos Of Google : \n\nCheck out this slide show:\nhttp://www.6smarketing.com/googlevisit/photo_1.php\n\nA downloadable 60 Minutes Google Show\nhttp://junk.haughey.com/60Minutes.avi\n\nGoogle Dance 2005 Video\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7283929917980410373&q=googleplex\nhttp://www.google.com/googledance2005/\n\nGoogle Factory Video\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3383042311441257769&q=google+ad&time=6915000\n\nYou can find a glimpse inside Googlepex at http://www.google.com/intl/en/plex/\nIt shows the Googlers at work & play!\n\nAnother link is http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/culture.html
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Jerry Yang and David Filo were the founders, Yahoo is an Corporation............
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Why not? Yahoo is worldwide. Why do so many Americans think everything revoolves around them?
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All of the information you are looking for can be found here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21\n\nYahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo, graduate students at Stanford, in January of 1994 and was originally called "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"
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Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. 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. Before 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.\n\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." 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.\n\nJerry and David soon found they were not alone in wanting a single place to find useful Web sites. Before long, hundreds of people were accessing their guide from well beyond the Stanford trailer. Word spread from friends to what quickly became a significant, loyal audience throughout the closely-knit Internet community. Yahoo! celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors.\n\nDue to the torrent of traffic and enthusiastic reception Yahoo! was receiving, the founders knew they had a potential business on their hands. In March 1995, the pair incorporated the business and met with dozens of Silicon Valley venture capitalists. They eventually came across Sequoia Capital, the well-regarded firm whose most successful investments included Apple Computer, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems. They agreed to fund Yahoo! in April 1995 with an initial investment of nearly $2 million.\n\nRealizing their new company had the potential to grow quickly, Jerry and David began to shop for a management team. They hired Tim Koogle, a veteran of Motorola and an alumnus of the Stanford engineering department, as chief executive officer and Jeffrey Mallett, founder of Novell's WordPerfect consumer division, as chief operating officer. They secured a second round of funding in Fall 1995 from investors Reuters Ltd. and Softbank. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees.\n\nToday, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 25 World properties. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States.
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Bill Gates  (who created microsoft that created the internet)
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Well alright then. So why did you choose that name? I'm just curious.
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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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Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. 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. Before 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.\n\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." 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.
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Yahoo is an international site - which President are you referring to?
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cause it has a cooler name\npeople are bored of yahoo\nand google is faster \nbut i still love my yahoo!!
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I agree, where is Yahoo? He made 3 different names on yahoo answer, Coonlover, coonkiller1 and  coonkiller2. The guy is a weirdo. I reported every single question he has asked and still never got suspended from yahoo answer. I'm suprised.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Mail\n\nOctober 8, 1997
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it should be yahoo.com.TH
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I think the real milestone that changed the Internet was the world wide web.  Without it, Yahoo wouldn't exist.