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Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels)

A race of brutish humanlike creatures in Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels.

First in use: c. 1726
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Yahoo (web portal)

The web portal and search company founded in 1994, known for Yahoo Mail, News and Finance.

First in use: c. 1994

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Jonathan Swift's brutes became the front page of the web.

Which meaning of Yahoo is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) came first (c. 1726). Yahoo (web portal) arrived in 1994. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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