The Full Form of YAHOO, What YAHOO Stands For
YAHOO! Is a web service company and one of the
pioneers of internet era. Founded in the month of 1994 by Stanford University
graduate engineers, Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yahoo was designed
to be a directory of other websites and the domain “Yahoo.com” created year
after Yahoo was founded.
Yahoo database was organized hierarchically, with main focus
on office workers as its target users.
Following the introduction of search engine function in
1995, yahoo became the first online directory and search engine on internet.
The company began offering free e-mail following its acquisition of RocketMail
in 1997 and also go ahead to acquire BroadCast.com and GeoCities at a whooping
price of $5.7 billion and $3.6 billion respectively.
Yahoo! Enjoyed it years of dot-com bubble with its stock
price skyrocketing during the era. Yahoo also acquired a number of startups in dot-com
burst era including the blogging platform Tumblr.
Yahoo was later acquired by Verizon Communications in
2016 and merged with AOL to form a new entity call Oath Inc.
The name YAHOO was selected because the founders
liked the slang definition of a “yahoo” which means “rude, unsophisticated,
uncouth.” This is not in any way related to the Yahoo Yahoo Nigerians
know, which means “Internet Fraud”.
According to Wikipedia, the word “yahoo” is a backronym
for “Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle”.
Some replaced the “Organized” with “Officious”. Hence, YAHOO: Yet
Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle.
The term “Hierarchically” was used due the manner in
which Yahoo database was arranged, while “Officious” described the many
office workers who would use Yahoo database and “Oracle” was intended to
mean “source of truth and wisdom”.
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