Definition of "Yahoo"

I therefore often begged his Favour to let me go among the Herds of Yahoos in the Neighbourhood, to which he always very graciouſly conſented, being perfectly convinced, that the Hatred I bore thoſe Brutes, would never ſuffer me to be corrupted by them; […]

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Relates Several Particulars of the Yahoos. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), pages 271–272

But having two beaming Chief Yahoos on the cover is an implied seal of approval.

1996, Newsweek, volume 127

Instead of driving down the street to meetings, soon Yahoos need merely stroll the walkways that crisscrossed a bright green lawn.

2002, Karen Angel, Inside Yahoo!: reinvention and the road ahead

Some Yahoos got filthy rich, but many more lost it all.

2004, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson: how a cartoon masterpiece defined a generation

I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of.

2007, Linda O. Johnston, The Fright of the Iguana, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, page 29

We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.

2008 July 16, David Gratzer, “Statement of David Gratzer, M.D., Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research”, in Getting Better Value in Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on the Budget House of Representatives; […] (Serial No. 110–37), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 23

He Googled, Binged, and Yahooed sharks, shark life, shark types, shark history, shark food, and anything else shark-related.

2014, Ellen J. Prager, “Behind the Jungle Wall”, in The Shark Whisperer, Minneapolis, Minn.: Scarletta Junior Readers, page 12