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One of the reasons why people go with a bad name, is because it at least stands out - that purple cow. This narrative is analyzed and dismissed in her book. Peo
by matesz 5y ago
One of the reasons why people go with a bad name, is because it at least stands out - that purple cow. This narrative is analyzed and dismissed in her book. People don't cringe on the name google anymore because they got used too it, but in the beginning for sure it raised some eyebrows right?
ps. google is not that bad actually as I look at it now, but what counts is the first impression. Of course if you have a breakthrough technology you can give it the name "underware" and it will adopt.
- taeric 5y agoI'll take a look at that book. The naive counter in my mind is that I can cede there are bad names without necessarily needing good names. That is, the name of something takes as much importance as you want to give it. Using a name that brings up bad context is obviously bad. But... no amount of "good context" is going to help a bad product/thing. For google, I would just argue it isn't a bad name. Not really a good one, per se. Before google, it was virtually an unknown word that had no meaning to most folks. (Indeed, it is a misspelling, after all.)