طبعاً لو الي كتب الموضوع تعب نفسه و بحث في Yahoo عن أصل الإسم كان وجد الجواب :
Yahoo! started out as "Jerry and David'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.
و تلاقي كل المعلومات في الوصلة التالية:
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/history.cfm
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