yahoo stands for what?

[djs1w]

Yet. Another. H?. O? O? thanks in advance.

[edit]
Yet Another Hypertext Online Organizer. I think...

[edit AGAIN]
I was wrong, it officially stands for 'Yet Another Hierarchial Officious Oracle'.

 

[TuffGirl]

Heh. I never knew it was an acronym.

 

[guyver01]

OFFICIAL HISTORY
The Web site 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 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.

 

[DaveSimmons]

And the word "yahoo" was coined by Jonathan Swift as one of the groups encountered in "Gulliver's Travels" (the 1996 miniseries with Ted Danson was quite good BTW).

 

[b0mbrman]

Interesting...So what does Google stand for?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

You Are High On Opium

nik

 

[mithrandir2001]

Yet Another Hierarchical [O] Oracle

I forget what the first O stands for.

 

[MaxDepth]

yeah, thats I read but I liked:
You Always Have Other Options