Co-Founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994, Yahoo! was previously known as David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web. Yahoo!
is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The word "hierarchical" described how Yahoo! data base was arranged in directory layers, "oracle" was intended to mean "source of truth and wisdom" and "officious" described the many office workers who would sue the Yahoo! data base while surfing from work. However, the co-founders insist that they selected the name because they liked the slang definition of the word "Yahoo!" that means rude, unsophisticated, uncouth. After its renaming, Yahoo! became the second most popular search engine of the world.
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