Indeed yahoo is not only a search engine but also a brutish or coarse person according to the Oxford American Dictionary. It would be a shame if the word, yahoo, which conjurs up images of the Old West, cattle drives, and drunken bar brawls was supplanted by the more contemporary meaning with the advent of the world wide web.

Many of the people who patronage this web site tend to be considered in the yahoo category, in that, humor tends to attract the irreverant, rebellious types who, in the days of the Old West, may be seen drinking in a saloon and taking in a cabaret or two.

Hopefully, in spite of the popularity of the search engine, the word yahoo (which in some dictionaries is a noun with the prescribed meaning stated above but in others can be used as a verb as an expression of joy or excitement) will continue to hold onto it's same robust and historical place within the English language. A person who starts a bar brawl in the Old West may be a yahoo, but at the start of a cattle drive a cowboy may exclaim yahoo to signal excitement.

With the obvious bias of the internet, it will be interesting to see how highly the search engines (including you know who) rank this page as it deals with the unconvential internet use of a certain word.