Noun1.
yahoo - a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
bumpkin,
chawbacon,
hayseed,
hick,
rube,
yokel
rustic - an unsophisticated country person
2.Yahoo - one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
3.Yahoo - a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the
manufacturer or distributor of a product
والموسوعه قالت
In January 1994,
Stanford graduate students
Jerry Yang and
David Filo created a website named "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web." Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in
Gulliver's Travels by
Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." The name can also be a
backronym for "
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".
[4] Its
URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.
[5]
By the end of 1994, Yahoo had already received one million hits. Yang and Filo realized their website had massive business potential, and on
1 March 1995, Yahoo was
incorporated.
[6] On
12 April 1996, Yahoo had its
initial public offering, raising $33.8 million dollars, by selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each.
"Yahoo" had already been trademarked for barbecue sauce, knives (by
EBSCO Industries) and human propelled watercraft (by Old Town Canoe Co.). Therefore, in order to get the trademark, Yang and Filo added the exclamation mark to the name.
[7] However, the exclamation mark is often omitted when referring to Yahoo.