There is history about yahoo are it is random name.
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What exactly are you talking about? There is a website called yahoo.com. There is a shout of joy, "yahoo!" There is a tv ad, "Yahoo, Mountain Dew!" There is a slang term yahoo, meaning ill mannered stranger. There was a Chinese emperor who changed his name to Yahoo because he heard a voice in the sky speak that word about the same time Moses met a spirit being who called Himself "YHVH". Nobody knows how to pronounce YHVH.
So what are you talking about?
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Back when Yahoo was created in 1994, it was originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." In January of 1995, they (Jerry Yang and David Filo) renamed the site Yahoo to bring a shorter name. Yahoo stands for "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle."
I'm asking why the website Yahoo was named Yahoo. I really like the joyful name of the website though.