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Why is yahoo called yahoo?

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I know google is go ogle but why is yahoo, yahoo?

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  1. Because the place is overrun by brainless oafs on holidays, a.k.a "Yahoos".


  2. In the early development of the search engine, it came to be known as Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." --YAHOO for short.

  3. Because it's a HAPPY SOUND YAHOO !!!! I guess they wanted to stand out from the crowd.And maybe they a RODEO MEN who invented YAHOO RIDE EM COWBOY>!!!!!

  4. Hmmm, i never thought of that

  5. Everytime you sign in, you're overcome with joy and yell

    "YAHOOOOOOO MY LIFE IS COMPLETE NOW THAT I AM A PART OF THIS AWESOMENESS"

    and then you proceed to live in joy and bliss for the rest of your days.

    True Story.

  6. that's a good question!

  7. the history of yahoo http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history....

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