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this is 100% because you've become inured to how strange it is. Google's name was a joke when it started.
by zaphod12 7y ago
this is 100% because you've become inured to how strange it is. Google's name was a joke when it started.
- Aeolun 7y agoThat may be true, but Google started when I didn’t have similar preconceptions based on name yet. The trend of calling something Trackr, Suprnova etc. didn’t exist. Now any service with a name like that seems shit compared to more readable/writeable names: Stackoverflow, Quora, datadog. Case in point is srht.co, which rebranded to Sourcehut for similar reasons.
- ben509 7y agoReplacing the 'ol' suffix in 'googol' brings 'google' much closer to common English phonetics. These could all be pronounced the same but would have been a harder sell: * gugal -- like frugal * gugle -- like bugle * ghougle -- like ghoul * googull -- like gull
- ExtraServings 7y agoSo should they rebrand as Clickle?
- big_chungus 7y agoThat would actually fall within the "goofy name but phonetically consistent" category that would be excusable once big, so maybe.