[baddox]

Interesting that he scores "Yahoo" poorly on Googlability. I'm not sure if that's a joke, but "Yahoo" is certainly very Googlable.

[dreeves]

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]

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

[Nicholas_C]

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

[kibibu]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000635/