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Google is a good name for a search engine, and easily usable as a verb. Yahoo is pretty good, and was used as a verb for all of the 90s and early 2000s. IMO no
by c54 13y ago
Google is a good name for a search engine, and easily usable as a verb.
Yahoo is pretty good, and was used as a verb for all of the 90s and early 2000s. IMO not as good as "I'm going to google that", "I'm going to yahoo that" sounds vaguely sexual.
DuckDuckGo and AskJeeves are terribad: "I'm going to duck duck go that"? No.
Blippex is better than ddg or ask jeeves, but still not too great. Coming up with a good product name is hard but is crucial for usability / spread through culture. Reminds me of blumpkin.
- marban 13y agoThe verb bonus of Google is indeed killer but Google sounds primarily better because Google is Google.
- antitrust 13y agoBlippex sounds like a dubstep musician. Despite dubstep being apparently totally uncool, I'm cool with that. Wait for the bass drop.
- ultramundane828 13y agoI kind of feel like "blip" is way, way better than all of the above. It's a word that's already a word, and its use on Blippex is almost congruous with the actual word. In my mind, that's a win.