From where the name Yahoo came up ?

[Bhupender Pal]

Yahoo! was started at Stanford University. It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were Electrical Engineering graduate students when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In April 1994, Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed "Yahoo!".The yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995.

[Garima Sharma]

Thanks Bhupender Pal for sharing this post with us. Yahoo's founders, Jerry Yang and David Filo came up with Yahoo as an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.