Global Internet company Yahoo! Inc., known for its signature yodel, has announced its first ever �Yahoo! Yodel Challenge.�  Amateur yodelers, both young and old, can audition at events in eight cities across the nation between now and early September, submit online at yodel-dot-yahoo-dot-com, or send yahoo a VHS tape.  The winner gets to appear in an upcoming Yahoo! commercial and also wins ten thousand dollars.  Wylie Gustafson, the person behind the original Yahoo! yodel, and the host of the upcoming Yahoo! Yodel Challenge events:

�Well, I�m a country western singer and I did the original Yahoo! Yodel.  Now people are in luck because they can come out and try yodeling themselves at the Yahoo! Yodel Challenge.  Anyone with the urge to (sound effects: yodeling) can come out to one of the eight events across the country and the winner even gets to be in a Yahoo! TV ad.  It�s going to be a lot of fun and people can get together and have a great time.�

For every participant that competes in the Yahoo! Yodel Challenge in one of the eight U.S. cities, Yahoo!  will donate ten dollars to the local chapter of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America.  To find out how to enter, go to yodel-dot-yahoo.com.