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2. Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo (. Gulliver's Travels. ) Yahoos are legendary human beings in the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift. [1] Their behaviour and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift's point of view. [1] The word "yahoo" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of Gulliver's ...

3. Yahoo! Travel - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo! Travel was a website operated by Yahoo! that offered guide books, daily articles, and travel booking services. History. The site was launched in 1997. In May 2007, additional features were added. In January 2014, it was the 9th-largest travel booking website. In February 2016, the website was shut down. References

4. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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   Early history (1994–1996) Upon the April 1994 renaming of Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web to Yahoo!, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

5. Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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   Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift , satirising both human nature and the " travellers' tales " literary subgenre.

6. Houyhnhnm - Wikipedia

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   First appearance. Gulliver's Travels. Houyhnhnms are a fictional race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift 's satirical 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. The name is pronounced either / ˈhuːɪnəm / or / ˈhwɪnəm /. [1] Swift apparently intended all words of the Houyhnhnm language to echo the neighing of horses.

7. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo! ( / ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] [5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications .