WHERE DID THE NAME GOOGLE COME FROM?
As we all know, this company has pretty much redefined how people get things done on a day-to-day basis. But Google wasn’t its original name. According to Google corporate history, Stanford students Larry Page and Sergei Brin created a search engine and called it “BackRub.” Their first logo was Larry Page’s hand.
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The name Google is a play on the mathematical term googol, which is a one followed by 100 zeros—and it was a total accident. As the story goes, Page was in his Stanford office with some other grad students. One of them, Sean Anderson, suggested “Googolplex,” and Page liked the shortened version, “Googol.” Anderson then did a domain name search, but spelled it “Google,” and that domain was available. Page snagged it, and that got the ball rolling.
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WHERE DID THE NAME APPLE COME FROM?
The definitive Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson has the answer to this one. According to the bio, Jobs named the company Apple when he was on “one of [his] fruitarian diets.” After a visit to an apple farm, Jobs thought to himself “the name sounded ‘fun, spirited and not intimidating.'”
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WHERE DID THE NAME AMAZON COME FROM?
The ubiquitous e-tailer was almost called “Cadabra” from “Abracadabra.” Mashable says Bezos then went with “Amazon” after his lawyer thought he said “Cadaver,” which would easily have gone down as the worst start-up name ever.
Supposedly, the name Amazon was selected because it suggests a large scale, and since website listings were often A-Z back in the day, Amazon would be towards the top of the list. Bezos considered calling it “Relentless” (meaning “that does not relent“) but friends thought that was “sinister.” Bezos bought the domain Relentless.com anyway, and it still redirects to Amazon.
From Dictionary.com
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