Multiple choice general knowledge

Gulliver's Travels is the inspiration for the name of which familiar internet company?

  1. Google

  2. Yahoo

  3. eBay

  4. Amazon
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Yahoo's founders Jerry Yang and David Filo chose the name because they considered themselves yahoos - a term from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels referring to crude, uncivilized creatures. The term 'yahoo' in the novel represents brutish humans, contrasting with the intelligent horses called Houyhnhnms. Google was named after 'googol', eBay has no literary connection, and Amazon is named after the river.

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