What does yahoo stand for?

Having worked at Yahoo! they company itself is based around the user being "a Yahoo". A Yahoo is a person who is not very good at doing things and finds tasks difficult. Yahoo! uses this concept to simplfy the internet so that "any old Yahoo" can use it!

For the company Yahoo, it stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The term is from Gulliver’s Travels, it was used to describe the unruly rabble of people that swarm about. American Heritage Dictionary defines: NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. ya·hoos A crude or brutish person. See synonyms at boor. ETYMOLOGY: From Yahoo, member of a race of brutes in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.