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Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links
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Not a chance.
The word yahoo has been in use since 1726.
There's no remote similarity or competitive front between YaHoo (the search engine) and the yahoo-xxx-girls.com web site.
Origin: coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Google is a completely different story. The trade name became a dictionary word, not the other way around.
