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As companies trend toward being conglomerates of unrelated businesses, it makes sense for them to rebrand this way. Google makes (a little) sense for just sear

• jacobolus 5y ago
  "Google" is a meaningless pair of semi-pronouncable nonsense syllables, inspired by the made up big number "googol" (which was named by a 9-year-old child whose uncle wrote a pop math book). It has no problem standing for self-driving taxis or whatever else. If you want your own similar company name, visit an elementary school and ask the 3rd grade students for advice. You can make "bleeblax" or "squibjub" or "tibflee" or "shubzoo" into the next unicorn company.
  • 1123581321 5y ago
    The weak connection is that the googolplex represents a huge amount of data, like Google’s searched index. Your other syllables don’t have that connection. It doesn’t matter how a huge number got its accepted name. The googol connection actually would still work for Waymo since AI driving also requires huge quantities of data.