What yahoo! means

[humpty]

Just to share, most people still do not know what Yahoo! really stands for, well, I now know...it stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"

This is taken from one of the Yahoo websites, so, don't worry, it's confirmed to be right, and you won't be laughed at when you tell your friends about it.

[netgal06]

That may be what it means, but to me every time I hear the word yahoo, I remember the movie IQ when Einstein rode a motorbike and yelled out Yahoo! The movie was made in 93 I think, before the name for the search engine was founded (which was ’94) so I like to think the movie had a helping hand in naming the search engine. …..

[humpty]

lol
you're pretty creative with that theory lol
i don't think it's really that case, but great theory lol

[backstage]

I like the netgal06 version.

That kind of thinking gives more "life" to technology and I like that.

:wink:

[natasha85]

but it sounds like a joke, could it really be true?
i do agree that it sounded like a nicer theory to believe but hehe, what humpty said seems very convinving you know

[fadyllan]

well, i'm sure most of you have heard the way they sing the 'yahoo' word in their ad. Maybe they should make an ad using that movie's scene. That would be fun.

[ryanmac]

Originally Posted by humpty

Just to share, most people still do not know what Yahoo! really stands for, well, I now know...it stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"

This is taken from one of the Yahoo websites, so, don't worry, it's confirmed to be right, and you won't be laughed at when you tell your friends about it.

I used to work for Yahoo! and to memorize the meaning of Yahoo! was of one of the key thing they usually impose for all employees to know....