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Does "ebay" or "amazon" or "google" make sense?
by eli 12y ago
Does "ebay" or "amazon" or "google" make sense?
- slouch 12y agoAt least for ebay and google, these names held no previous definition. Live, bing and amazon are all words that meant something before they became brand names.
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- astrodust 12y ago"ebay" and "google" are made-up words, very distinctive. "amazon" isn't unique, but it wasn't hard for them to wrestle to the top on that one, especially with the .com domain. "live" could've been a thing, but it's buried under layers of branding. Is it Microsoft Live? MSN Live? Is it "live" as in "alive" or "to live"?