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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

I believe that half of the world have google bookmarked as their default search engine. Wheras the other half uses yahoo!. I've a question particularly for yahoo! users. Have you ever wondered what does yahoo! mean?

Prior to common knowledge, yahoo! is more than a name. In fact, Yahoo! is actually an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".

From http://netforbeginners.about.com/ -
The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo! database was arranged in directory layers. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "source of truth and wisdom". And "officious" described the many office workers who would use the Yahoo! database while surfing from work.

Interesting huh? Bet you didn't know there's such a deep meaning behind Yahoo! =D

posted at1:21 AM