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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 Yah
by 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 agoThe OP didn’t say anything was wrong with Google and you repeated exactly what they were getting at.
- BbzzbB 4y agoI 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 agoFYI, 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 agoYou'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.