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What is this page supposed to be about anyway Two16
- Clarified...Lee M 19:14, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
"Yahoo" vs Yahoo! Inc
- 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 wierd. Can we find out why they really chose the name and use that instead? Mbp 23:54, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- My thoughts exactly. I'll remove it. --Dyss 23:53, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- 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: [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Gulliver%27s_Travels&diff=47959&oldid=47941). --Paul A 01:36, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- P.S. Note what Yahoo!#History has to say on the subject.
- 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)
I've added the reference back in. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:17, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)