Just for snicks...Can you name another web engine that has been a verb for a long time? What about "Ask".com?. The OED shows uses of it as a verb back to about the year 1000. (-:
Btw, in case you're wondering about the first use of Yahoo as a noun (NOT meaning Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle) it comes from Gulliver's Travels in 1726, according to the OED. As an intransitive verb--Yahoo, we won!--OED lists 1976 and adds, "In some cases supposedly characteristic of cowboys, esp. when executing daring feats on horseback, etc." Filo and Yang's Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle (Yahoo!) came into existence somewhere around September 1994, when Jerry Yang mentioned the directory on a USENET group.
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