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That's probably the least of your concerns, especially when you have a near monopoly in the search business. I think by choosing a not so unique name, they're
by woadwarrior01 15y ago
That's probably the least of your concerns, especially when you have a near monopoly in the search business.
I think by choosing a not so unique name, they're ensuring that people remember to prefix these names with Google (Google Go, Google Dash etc). This should has a significant effect on Google's branding.
- redthrowaway 15y agoHow is "Dash" any less unique than "Python", "Ruby", "Lisp", "Java", "Basic", etc? We only associate those names with languages because those languages are established; I doubt googling "Ruby" in 2000 would have resulted in anything but minerals on the front page.
- Corrado 15y agoDash[1] (Debian Almquist SHell) has been around since the early 2000's and is the first thing that I thought about when reading the title of this post. 1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Almquist_shell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Almquist_shell