Talk:Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels)

message: Just from the top of my head, (and a quick search on Google) says that Yahoo (the web search engine) actually stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. Computer Knowledge --Neeklamy —Preceding undated comment added 23:27, 2 April 2001 (UTC)
replies: text: I would guess that is a backronym. - TS— Preceding unsigned comment added by TimShell (talk • contribs) 00:18, 3 April 2001 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Pre-"User:Conversion script"-edit content) 

message: What is this page supposed to be about anyway Two16  — Preceding undated comment added 16:12, 11 January 2003 
:Clarified...Lee M 19:14, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Two 16, this page is to discuss about editions to the article. 201.255.55.148 (talk) 07:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:    Hmm, IMO, the IP-user 201... answered a question that Two16 and Lee probably agreed was about the accompanying article-page, with correct information about this Talk page. And also IMO they confused acts of editing the article with (more specific) acts of making additions to the article.--Jerzy•t 06:09, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  (What's the topic?) 

message: ::The Yahoo Internet refers to its users as "Yahoos" in honor of this view of humanity, which Yahoo's original business plan claimed it was fully willing to indulge. Some would argue that given their current list of most common search terms, they have admirably and totally succeeded. Others would argue that they cannot succeed in totally emulating Gulliver's Yahoos until it is actually possible to kill someone through the service.
This paragraph is just weird.  Can we find out why they really chose the name and use that instead? Mbp 23:54, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: My thoughts exactly. I'll remove it. --Dyss 23:53, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: For the record, I didn't write the paragraph: I only moved it here from Gulliver's Travels. It was originally added to that article by an anonymous contributor: . --Paul A 01:36, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

text: P.S. Note what Yahoo!#History has to say on the subject.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul A (talk)  01:43, 27 September 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I see, I apologize for assuming this. According to the history of Yahoo!, and more importantly, the link on the bottom of that page, Yahoo! really is named after the yahoos. I still find this very strange, but I suppose it is true then. It is however much more relevant on the Yahoo! page  and is stated quite more NPOV there, so it seems better like this, or does anyone disagree with this? --Dyss 10:45, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

text: I bet Mr. Swift was a Google fan. :P  --Matt0401 23:47, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

text: DA's restoration --Jerzy•t 06:09, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Yahoo" vs Yahoo! Inc 

message: There's currently too much confusing with Yahoo fictional characters and other yahoo names over the more popular Yahoo! Search engine. I would do it if I someone could tell me how. - [Snuff] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snuff (talk • contribs) 18:00, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time for a disambiguation page. 

message: This dude, Zemun (talk), has added a paragraph in a foreign language. I've moved it here.
*Yahoo, engleski prevod srpskog uzvika Juhu ! Vuk Karadzic je "skupio" Jahu! mnogo pre provog pisanog zapsisa "Yahoo". Pisanije kazu da je jos car Dusan (Silni) sredom dok je obavezno tamanio proju posle jagnjetine vikao zadovoljno "Jahu!"
Anyone who understands it can see if it is important and relevant and then translate it. Thanks! 219.79.29.47 07:27, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The word "srpskog" looks likely to be derived (probably by adding a grammatically required ending) from a word, in the Serbian language, that means "Serbian". (Many languages capitalize the name of the ethnic group and/or country, but not the adjectives derived from that name.)--Jerzy•t 06:09, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-English edits on the [[Yahoo|disambig page]] 

message: *Support moving to Yahoo as this is the original and primary meaning of the word, and easily distinguishable from the web site "Yahoo!" due to its lack of exclamation point (!). A degree of support for this has been expressed at Talk:Yahoo!#Survey. — CharlotteWebb 18:44, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: I was looking at List of legendary creatures and wondering if this page should be moved to a better title, like Yahoo (creature) or Yahoo (fictional race) or something like that, but I'm not sure what would be best. — CharlotteWebb 23:35, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "literature"

message: Hi all. I noticed that on this page, it is stated that Swift got the inspiration for the name from the Yowie. However, in the Yowie article, it states that it was the other way around. Neither of these statements are supported by evidence. Does anyone know which way it should be? Thanks. - Akamad (talk) 03:24, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yahoos and Yowies 

message: The main article indicates that "It is doubtful that there is any connection with any Hebrew roots as it has been proposed by some. The negative use of the Hebrew name Jehu is due to the actions of this ancient king and never in reference to the original meaning of the name." However, the name Jehu is not the only Hebrew name that is similar to Yahoo! The tetragammon representing the name of God is (in Hebrew) "yod" "heh" "vav" "heh".
Since ancient Hebrew had no written vowels (except "holem vav" and one other not germane to this discussion), the vowel for "a" could follow the "yod" giving a "yah" sound. The "vav" could be a "holem vav" which has the sound of "oh" or "ooh" which following the "heh" would give the sound "hoh" or "hoo". The final "heh" need not have a vowel following it nor would it be pronounced. So an alternate pronunciation of Jehovah could be Yahoo!!
Perhaps Swift was trying to express a dislike for Hebrews by characterizing them (personified by their god) as "primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.193.4.240 (talk) 16:41, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: My word. Yahoo was an especially nasty satire. Religious folk tend to claim the tetragrammaton pronunciation is unknown, Many people know it. For example, Moslems call Jews 'Yahudi' People of Yahu.Jonathan Swift was attacking contemporary hypocrisy by making those in the physical image of God beasts, and those in the physical image of beasts to be urbane. 72.174.146.52 (talk) 02:10, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derivation of Yahoo - Hebrew roots? 

message: I think they're also a carachter of Borges, doesn't know someone?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.255.55.148 (talk) 07:16, 31 May 2008‎    (IP-user 201... commented on two matters deserving separate sections. Their self-sig appears above in the section section "(What's the topic?)") --Jerzy•t 06:09, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Yahoos in [[Borges]]?)