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Jianhua Shangshui, Henan, China(Zone 7b) Dec 02, 2002

I sign my email account in yahoo.com.
yahoo, the word sounds a little weired.
i'd like to know something about its story.
Thanks in advance.

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notmartha Bay City, MI(Zone 6a) Dec 02, 2002

its what i say everytime i get something new-YAHOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Baa Dec 02, 2002

Yahoo as a word means an insensitive person. Jonathan Swift first used it in Gullivers Travels (a wonderful lampoon of society of that age and of any age since) as a name for a race of uncivilised people.

Where the exclamation Yahooooooooo comes from I really don't know

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Terry Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) Dec 02, 2002

Well, I don't know how accurate this is, but here's a timeline from Yahoo: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/pr/milestones.html and http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html

The name is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" according to the second link :)

It wasn't the favorite search engine of DG'ers in a vote last summer: http://davesgarden.com/t/273307/search%20engine

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Aimee Georgetown, TX(Zone 8a) Dec 02, 2002

Yahoo as in online stuff is usually pronounced with an "ah" sound, and the word for those insensitive klutzes is usually pronounced with a long a. Isn't it funny to think of how the internet has changed the language? Jianhua, I so admire those of you who deal with all of this in several languages and vastly different cultural and social climates.

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Jianhua Shangshui, Henan, China(Zone 7b) Dec 03, 2002

Good,simply good.
No wonder there is a proverb ,saying,
'Three heads are better than one.'
Baa's given us the history of yahoo.i once read Swift's travels -- part one 'liliput'.
Go-vols' explains the yahoo of yahoo.com
by the way,in Chinese yahoo is translated into ΡΕ»’,which means cute tiger,heheh
At last,I should say THANKS!!!!

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