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  • proper noun A popular web portal located at http://www.yahoo.com.

Etymologies

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Acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". Compare etymologies of yahoo and Yahoo.

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Examples

  • If you want to tailor a feed to provide only certain kinds of content to your feed reader, you can make this happen with a program called Yahoo!

    Unclutter Your Life in One Week Erin Rooney Doland 2009

  • "Now they are happy," Ma said, referring to Yahoo! and Softbank that also owns a stake in Alibaba, "but I am half burned."

    Forbes.com: News Helen H. Wang 2011

  • Chelsea soccer ace - who she divorced in September 2010 - searches for her name on Yahoo! increased by some 20 per cent when compared with the same period last year.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Chelsea soccer ace - who she divorced in September 2010 - searches for her name on Yahoo! increased by some 20 per cent when compared with the same period last year.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Yet companies such as Yahoo! are opting out of the porn industry.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Those products would be aimed at driving more traffic to its member newspapers' Web sites and could also help AP increase sales to non-member online partners, such as Yahoo! and Time Warner's AOL unit, both of which purchase packages of AP national, international and business news to run on their news Web sites.

    An Old Media Revival? 2006

  • Facebook's asking price is reportedly in the $900 million to $1 billion range, and other companies, such as Yahoo! and Microsoft, appear willing to consider a deal.

    Viacom: No To Facebook Redstone: No To Facebook 2006

  • Like popular e-mail providers such as Yahoo! and Google, wireless companies have filters meant to screen out junk messages.

    Stock Spam Hits Cellphones Dan Frommer 2006

  • Many of the Internet's most popular Web sites, such as Yahoo! and Amazon.com, already have slimmed-down versions for cell-phone browsers.

    Mobilizing Web Browsers 2006

  • He also said eBay's premium valuation is in-line with other Internet media companies such as Yahoo! and Google, and that eBay faces increasing competition from Google Base and Google Payments.

    EBay Shares Seen Range-Bound Through Summer 2006

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