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A fun fact about another well known company - Foxconn. Apparently the founder Terry Gou came up with this name by joining words "fox" and "conn". Fox is an anim
by rpozarickij 23d ago
A fun fact about another well known company - Foxconn. Apparently the founder Terry Gou came up with this name by joining words "fox" and "conn". Fox is an animal he liked and "conn" refers to connectors (which is what the company specialized in in its early days).
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- Haven880 22d agoNot really explaining autoMATTic. Amazon, "A" is because Jeff wanted it at the top of search. Fox, Dell, Walmart, Disney, all is closer to the example.
- jrflowers 22d agoSame with Taco Bell
- dylan604 22d agoIf only Alexander hadn't wasted time on the phone!
- MBCook 22d agoI was just thinking about the A thing the other day. A1 Plumbing, Acme Brick, AAA Home Servicing all the companies named over the years to try and be the first in the phone book. But phone books have been dead for a long time. And search results aren’t alphabetical. It would be interesting for someone to graph or somehow otherwise show how names have changed in response. I have seen those occasional pictures of businesses named “(thing) near me” in an attempt to win at Google searches.
- mitxela 22d agoThere are a few called My Location or Current Location too. They come up when you want Google Maps to navigate starting from where you are...
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