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YAHOO!David Filo and Jerry Yang developed the first online navigational guide to the Internet while attending Stanford University. They originally called it Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web. The two students developed a means to bookmark and categorize their favorite web sites. Today, Yahoo!, an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, provides custom searching to nearly 220 million people each month. |
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"Yahoo." Computer Sciences. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Yahoo." Computer Sciences. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401200148.html "Yahoo." Computer Sciences. 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401200148.html |
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Yahoo One of the most popular SEARCH ENGINES on the WORLD WIDE WEB. It is unusual in that it uses human indexers to categorize and catalogue a site rather than a SPIDER. There is a junior version known as YAHOOLIGANS. It is very difficult for a site to get listed in Yahoo. Once listed, however, the TRAFFIC to your site increases greatly.
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DARREL INCE. "Yahoo." A Dictionary of the Internet. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. DARREL INCE. "Yahoo." A Dictionary of the Internet. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O12-Yahoo.html DARREL INCE. "Yahoo." A Dictionary of the Internet. 2001. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O12-Yahoo.html |
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yahoo a rude, noisy, or violent person, from the name of an imaginary race of brutish creatures in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).
From the mid 19th century yahoo (perhaps a different word in origin) has also been used in Australia for a mythical creature resembling a big hairy man, said to haunt eastern Australia. |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "yahoo." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "yahoo." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-yahoo.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "yahoo." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-yahoo.html |
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ya·hoo1 / ˈyäˌhoō; yäˈhoō/ • n. inf. a rude, noisy, or violent person. ya·hoo2 / yäˈhoō/ • interj. expressing great joy or excitement. |
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"yahoo." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "yahoo." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-yahoo.html "yahoo." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-yahoo.html |
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Yahoo A hierarchical directory of Web sites organized by category. Yahoo links to several other popular Web search sites and if a search is unsuccessful on Yahoo it can still lead to results on the linked sites.
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JOHN DAINTITH. "Yahoo." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN DAINTITH. "Yahoo." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O11-Yahoo.html JOHN DAINTITH. "Yahoo." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O11-Yahoo.html |
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Yahoo, the name of the beasts in human form described by Swift in the fourth part of Gulliver's Travels.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Yahoo." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Yahoo." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Yahoo.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Yahoo." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Yahoo.html |
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yahoo name invented by Swift (‘Gulliver's Travels’, 1726) for a brute in human form.
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T. F. HOAD. "yahoo." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "yahoo." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-yahoo.html T. F. HOAD. "yahoo." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-yahoo.html |
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"yahoo." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "yahoo." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-yahoo.html "yahoo." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-yahoo.html |
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