What is the full form of YAHOO

YAHOO: Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle or Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle

YAHOO stands for Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle or Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle.

Yahoo is an American web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Media. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.

It is headquartered in Sunnyvale California.

The term “hierarchical” specifies how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories.

The term “oracle” was intended to specify “source of truth and wisdom”, and the term “officious”, is used to specify that many office workers who would use the Yahoo database while surfing from work.

Yahoo grew rapidly throughout the 1990s. Yahoo went public in April 1996 and its stock price rose by 600 percent within two years. Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal, putting it in competition with services like Excite, Lycos and America Online.

By 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting point for web users, and the human-edited Yahoo Directory the most popular search engine

Yahoo began offering free e-mail from October 1997 after the acquisition of RocketMail, which was then renamed to Yahoo! Mail. In 1998, Yahoo decided to replace AltaVista as the crawler-based search engine underlying the Directory with Inktomi.