Keep in mind, Google was roundly mocked initially as a ridiculous name that sounded like a word a baby/child might say. Google, Bing, Yahoo!, A9 Search, Excite

Keep in mind, Google was roundly mocked initially as a ridiculous name that sounded like a word a baby/child might say. Google, Bing, Yahoo!, A9 Search, Excite, AltaVista, Overture, Inktomi, Lycos, HotBot, DogPile, Mamma.com., Teoma, Ask Jeeves, Cuil. Those are all ridiculous names if you want to scale them by seriousness. Then you have MSN Search, AOL / NetFind, InfoSeek, GoTo, LookSmart, WebCrawler, alltheweb. Slightly less ridiculous sounding, which ultimately that didn't make any difference.