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I'm just disappointed that people go along with takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet. If one was renamed "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" would

I'm just disappointed that people go along with takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet. If one was renamed "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" would people still go along with it? What's the limit?

thih9 3y ago
We don’t need renames for takeovers of useful words, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_(name)#Modern_popularity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_(name)#Modern_popularity > Popularity continued to climb and Alexa was ranked in the top 100 in the mid-1990s. According to the Social Security Administration, its highest popularity, 39th, was achieved in 2006. The name's popularity decreased rapidly after Amazon picked it as the wake word of its voice service Amazon Alexa, which was released worldwide in 2016. More at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/people-named-alexa-name-change-amazon/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/p...
swozey 3y ago
Alphabet is such a cringe name for a company no less. Especially with the meaning google infers. I bet they giggled like little kids in the board room that day. We're so cunning and witty! hehe!
- 7ewis 3y ago
  What meaning do they infer?
  - swozey 3y ago
    That they're going to make a ton of stupid company names and it's their company-name umbrella dad-joke used for tax and legal purposes? We didn't just all get the memo that that's the joke?
    - edgyquant 3y ago
      Or it could be that they are obviously a front for the alphabet agencies
      - swozey 3y ago
        lmao. I would love to have been a fly on the wall "We need a new company name!" "Alphabet!" "YES EXACTLY!"
        thih9 3y ago
        > In a 2018 talk, Schmidt disclosed that the original inspiration for the name came from the location of the then Google Hamburg office's street address: ABC-Straße. From Wikipedia about alphabet Inc
        swozey 3y ago
        What! Well that deflates my entire theory
andsoitis 3y ago
> I'm just disappointed that people go along with takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet. X is not a word.
- pjerem 3y ago
  Still, it’s probably the most generic letter that you can use alone in a lot of domains. If you had the opportunity to buy any unique letter domain name of your choice but you may choose only one, most people on this planet would chose X because it can mean anything.
voytec 3y ago
> takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet Apple, Blackberry...
- notahacker 3y ago
  Shell, Ford, Coke...

thih9 3y ago

We don’t need renames for takeovers of useful words, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_(name)#Modern_popularity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_(name)#Modern_popularity > Popularity continued to climb and Alexa was ranked in the top 100 in the mid-1990s. According to the Social Security Administration, its highest popularity, 39th, was achieved in 2006. The name's popularity decreased rapidly after Amazon picked it as the wake word of its voice service Amazon Alexa, which was released worldwide in 2016. More at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/people-named-alexa-name-change-amazon/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/p...

swozey 3y ago

Alphabet is such a cringe name for a company no less. Especially with the meaning google infers. I bet they giggled like little kids in the board room that day. We're so cunning and witty! hehe!

7ewis 3y ago
What meaning do they infer?
- swozey 3y ago
  That they're going to make a ton of stupid company names and it's their company-name umbrella dad-joke used for tax and legal purposes? We didn't just all get the memo that that's the joke?
  - edgyquant 3y ago
    Or it could be that they are obviously a front for the alphabet agencies
    - swozey 3y ago
      lmao. I would love to have been a fly on the wall "We need a new company name!" "Alphabet!" "YES EXACTLY!"
      - thih9 3y ago
        > In a 2018 talk, Schmidt disclosed that the original inspiration for the name came from the location of the then Google Hamburg office's street address: ABC-Straße. From Wikipedia about alphabet Inc
        swozey 3y ago
        What! Well that deflates my entire theory

andsoitis 3y ago

> I'm just disappointed that people go along with takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet. X is not a word.

pjerem 3y ago
Still, it’s probably the most generic letter that you can use alone in a lot of domains. If you had the opportunity to buy any unique letter domain name of your choice but you may choose only one, most people on this planet would chose X because it can mean anything.

voytec 3y ago

> takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet Apple, Blackberry...

notahacker 3y ago
Shell, Ford, Coke...