Yahoo! Baby a Fraud - Reporter Fired

Jan 24, 2005 - 12:28 pm 0 by
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There was a story in a Romanian tabloid about a baby that was given the name "Yahoo!" by its parents. The story was that the parents selected the name Yahoo! "as a sign of gratitude for meeting over the Internet." "If it were real, it would have been a good story indeed," Ionescu said. Duh!

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