[[a portal, “David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" “The word "yahoo" is an acronym](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym) for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".[13]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!#cite_note-13) The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo! database was arranged in layers of subcategories. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "source of truth and wisdom",” ~Wikipedia