How Big Tech Companies Pick Their Quirky Names
Channel: IntoConnection
Date: 18/03/2015

Flickr, Spotify and Vine are just a tip of the iceberg of startups that have strange names. There are countless other companies with quirky names that have almost nothing to do with the product of service they sell. 
 
Once again (it is getting so old) it started in Silicon Valley. In the early 1990s Google and Yahoo launched as search engines. So how, and why did they choose their names? Well, the name Google is a misspelling of googol, the high number of a 1 followed by 100 zeros. 

1 googol =
1.0 × 10100


And Yahoo is an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. Oke, so these have a clear explanation. But why do companies sometimes choose names that look like an alphabet soup? It’s the internet, stupid! These days every new business needs it’s own website. With about 284 million domain names registered worldwide, the recognizable and short dot.com URL’s have been long taken. The solution is get creative with new names. We invited the beautiful tech guru Loulou to elaborate further on the matter. 

Fun fact: did you know that some of the biggest tech companies were launched by picking names out of hats. 

Want to know how startups pick brandable, memorable and adorable logos for their company. Check why tech companies always use animal logos


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