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Google’s Acquhire Binge

• davidedicillo 17y ago
  We all know they did it because of the name. They just want traffic from people misspelling Bing.
  • sundarurfriend 17y ago
    On reading the title, I too thought Googlers might have found it amusing to acquire a company called Binge. But then, thankfully, I read the article. This makes me think though - we are losing some information by making the titles into Title Case, namely the information of what is a proper noun and what is not. Is the slightly improved readability worth the loss? I personally don't think so.
• mortenjorck 17y ago
  It took me a moment to parse the portmanteau of "acquire" and "hire," but I finally put it together. This article is currently the top hit for the neologism: http://www.google.com/search?q=acquhire http://www.google.com/search?q=acquhire (My first impression of the headline was that it was some sort of quasi-literate mangling of an impossible headline about Google acquiring Bing.)
  • buster 17y ago
    To me it just looked like a typo and immediately let me think "mhh, when the author can't even spell check his headline, what could the article be worth". You never should do such things.
  • c1sc0 17y ago
    acquihire would have been a better neologism
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