YAHOO Abbreviation

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What does YAHOO mean?

Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle is a backronym for Yahoo. A backronym is actually an acronym created deliberately to fit an existing word. 

Yahoo is a web service provider with a plethora of services such as Yahoo search engine, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo news, etc. 

History

Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Originally beginning as “Jerry and David’s guide to the World Wide Web”, it was a directory of multiple websites on the internet which organized these websites in a hierarchical order. 

The company was renamed Yahoo Directory in March 1994 and the domain Yahoo dot com was created on January 18, 1995.

Meaning of YAHOO

“Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” was deliberately chosen as the acronym Yahoo was preferred by the founders of the company.

• Yet Another[YA] – In the field of computer programming is used as the starting initial (ya) for companies, programs, and organizations which are considered to be not unique products but yet another product of a kind that already exists. 

• Hierarchical[H] – points towards the hierarchical nature of the arrangement of websites in the Yahoo Directory.

• Officious[O] – Used to refer to office workers surfing the Yahoo Directory from their offices.

• Oracle[O] – used to refer to a source of wisdom.

Growth and decline

Yahoo steadily became one of the most popular web service providers in the world. Riding the “dot com bubble” Yahoo reached high market valuations with Microsoft offering 44.6 Billion United States Dollars to acquire Yahoo in February 2008.

However, following multiple job cuts, layovers, changes in top executive leadership, and a major data breach in 2014, the core internet assets of Yahoo were sold to Verizon Communication for $4.48 Billion. 

Services

Yahoo services had a plethora of different service areas which include content, communication, advertising and web portals, etc.

Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Music, Yahoo Movies, and Yahoo Search Marketing are some examples of numerous Yahoo services.