A Guide to Search Results for "Yahoo"
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The word "yahoo" was originally coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels as the name of a fictional race of brutes who embodied the worst aspects of humanity. However, Yahoo! is better known as the mother of all search engines, Web directories, and Internet portals which began in 1994 as a collection of links to the favorite Web sites of David Filo and Jerry Yang, then candidates for Ph.Ds in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. The original Web site was called "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web," but it was renamed Yahoo! as an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."

The primary URL for Yahoo! is < http://www.yahoo.com/ >, which is frequently entered as a search term in lieu of entering said URL into the address bar of a Web browser, along with "www.yahoo.com" and "yahoo.com," as well as URLs for the Canadian and German versions of Yahoo!, "www.yahoo.ca" and "yahoo.de." This is not unlike someone calling a telephone company operator to place a local phone call, leading many Internet researchers to conclude that there is a great deal of confusion among end users between the function of URLs and the function of search engines like Yahoo!

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