Interesting that he scores "Yahoo" poorly on Googlability. I'm not sure if that'...

dreeves · on Oct 22, 2014

Quoting myself from the hovertext on the "Yahoo" scores:

> Yahoo is of course googlable today but from the perspective of choosing new names, anything that's a dictionary word isn't very unique

jiggy2011 · on Oct 21, 2014

Yahoo was around and well established before google even showed up. If Yahoo was a new startup today then it could struggle.

Nicholas_C · on Oct 21, 2014

The only other place I've ever heard it used is in Gulliver's Travels, and I believe is the origin.

kibibu · on Oct 22, 2014