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Thanks :) Hehe. The name has a story behind it. grep is a UNIX tool used for searching files for matching text. 42 is the "Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Ques

by jagtesh 16y ago

Thanks :) Hehe. The name has a story behind it. grep is a UNIX tool used for searching files for matching text. 42 is the "Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything". So grep42 is a search engine for searching the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything ;) Well, maybe we'll get there someday! I saw the page just now. It seems centered to me. What resolution are you running at? I am working on the advance search options UI atm. It's a tricky one. Cause there's still some other things I need to figure out which could affect advanced search. However, some of the capability is already there but it comes without a UI (more here http://www.grep42.com/faqs/ http://www.grep42.com/faqs/) Thanks for the suggestion with spacings! I wanted to avoid images as much as possible, but seems like I'll have to settle for a logo image to incorporate the fine-tuning!

JimmyL 16y ago
I wouldn't bank on people getting what the name means, if that's part of your branding strategy - if you're getting questions about it here (where I think it's fair to say almost everyone knows what grep is, and most people have probably read some part of HHGTTG), you can be sure that most people won't get it. Personally, I read it as "grep-for-2", which doesn't really mean anything.
- jagtesh 16y ago
  grep-four-two is how I pronounce it too. I feel its neither cliched nor easily comprehensible yet sort of catchy once you're used to it. Its not something anyone would relate to at first; but its an opportunity, a differentiator, an empty cup that could be filled with anything. Once people start relating to it, they'd never confuse it with something else :)