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I pretty much stopped obsessing over domain names after seeing the success of "google". Ultimately it is the product/service/business that matters. Sure, we all

I pretty much stopped obsessing over domain names after seeing the success of "google". Ultimately it is the product/service/business that matters. Sure, we all try to get a domain name that we want/like but no need obsessing over it. It sucks that most of us didn't know what to do in 1994 when lot of dictionary words were available. But it is what it is.

BbzzbB 4y ago
What's wrong with Google? I'm sure the origin (googolplex) is lost on most people, but it seems like a decent brand name to me. On top of which, consider if Yahoo! had won the search market, i don't think their brand would've become a universal verb. Granted, I don't believe it was an explicit choice to have a "verbale" brand-name. But you (and many others in this thread) are right that names often don't matter that much. A better product will normally win regardless of the name, and once it does it's name will become "normalized". Duckduckgo might be such an example.. terrible name (IMO), yet respected by many as a Google-alternative. Your product likely won't fail because of a bad name, but it doesn't hurt to have a good one.
- jackblemming 4y ago
  The OP didn’t say anything was wrong with Google and you repeated exactly what they were getting at.
  - BbzzbB 4y ago
    I argued Google is a good name (IMO, subjectively) in the first part, while I understood OP as saying it's a bad one and that the company succeeded in spite of it (which I indeed agreed with in the second part). I've also already acknowledged said agreement/reiteration in my comment.
- ClashTheBunny 4y ago
  FYI, googolplex is derived from googol. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol#Etymology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol#Etymology
- mitchdoogle 4y ago
  You're saying all this with the benefit of hindsight. Google is a gibberish name, and upon first hearing it, sounds a bit childish, like baby-speak (goo goo ga ga) or silly (similar to "giggle"). If a company with a name like that can become one of the most valuable companies in the world, it proves the name doesn't matter that much.
patrec 4y ago
Google is a great name -- easily the best name among the top 5 tech companies. It's unique, short, can be "verbed" and is easy to memorize and pronounce for English speakers and many non English speakers alike.

BbzzbB 4y ago

What's wrong with Google? I'm sure the origin (googolplex) is lost on most people, but it seems like a decent brand name to me. On top of which, consider if Yahoo! had won the search market, i don't think their brand would've become a universal verb. Granted, I don't believe it was an explicit choice to have a "verbale" brand-name. But you (and many others in this thread) are right that names often don't matter that much. A better product will normally win regardless of the name, and once it does it's name will become "normalized". Duckduckgo might be such an example.. terrible name (IMO), yet respected by many as a Google-alternative. Your product likely won't fail because of a bad name, but it doesn't hurt to have a good one.

jackblemming 4y ago
The OP didn’t say anything was wrong with Google and you repeated exactly what they were getting at.
- BbzzbB 4y ago
  I argued Google is a good name (IMO, subjectively) in the first part, while I understood OP as saying it's a bad one and that the company succeeded in spite of it (which I indeed agreed with in the second part). I've also already acknowledged said agreement/reiteration in my comment.
ClashTheBunny 4y ago
FYI, googolplex is derived from googol. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol#Etymology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol#Etymology
mitchdoogle 4y ago
You're saying all this with the benefit of hindsight. Google is a gibberish name, and upon first hearing it, sounds a bit childish, like baby-speak (goo goo ga ga) or silly (similar to "giggle"). If a company with a name like that can become one of the most valuable companies in the world, it proves the name doesn't matter that much.

patrec 4y ago

Google is a great name -- easily the best name among the top 5 tech companies. It's unique, short, can be "verbed" and is easy to memorize and pronounce for English speakers and many non English speakers alike.