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Yahoo's original name

Wikipedia article's on Yahoo give the original name as been "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web".

However, Yahoo's corporate sites are now putting it forward as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" ( http://yodel.yahoo.com/about/ and http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html)

Does anyone have definitive evidence about the correct form?

86.212.55.212 09:07, 1 June 2007 (UTC)Ronan Murphy

It was definitely called "Jerry's Guide ..". The name "Jerry and David's Guide .." was suggested, and may even have been used briefly (this book [1] says it was). Earthlyreason (talk) 04:11, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

URL Changed

Due to a change in URLs the #3 reference should be http://blog.cre8asite.net/bwelford/2004/04/a-rose-by-any-other-name/ but I cannot open up the list in the Edit mode to make the correction.

Perhaps someone can make the correction.

Thanks

Bwelford 23:57, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

It changed again over the years, it's now here. I'll update the article accordingly. --82.170.113.123 (talk) 10:31, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Merger proposal

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This content appears to be mostly a previous (and less complete) version of the History section in the Yahoo! article.

I suggest that it is removed, after extracting and transferring any extra material of value.

Although the Yahoo! page is identified as a bit long (38 kB), this won't make much difference to it. Earthlyreason (talk) 04:15, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, I hear the opposing voices that a history of Yahoo! article is justified. But at the moment the page simply offers an out-of-date copy of the section in the main Yahoo! article, which is itself being updated. Either we re-merge it (for now, at least), or someone needs to summarise the history in the main article, and move the new copy to the 'history' article. The present situation is untenable. Earthlyreason (talk) 09:55, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

The situation has (articles have) changed tremendously since September 2008 (4.5 years ago). Also, since September 2008, no further comments have been added to this discussion. For these reasons I'm closing this discussion. Feel free to suggest a new merge proposal in a new section if you still believe an article merge/removal is necessary. --82.170.113.123 (talk) 14:39, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Excessive Lead section

I have slightly amended the Lead section as it was too long, even for a company as significant as Yahoo! I also added citations and a tag for information that I was unable to find a source for. However, if I have been unreasonable in my editing then I am open to reversions.--Soulparadox (talk) 11:58, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

The single link in the External links section is dead. Could be replaced by either this or the archived version at the Internet Archive here. Not sure which one to pick. If you do, feel free to further improve the article. --82.170.113.123 (talk) 14:05, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

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