A son named 'Google'

Liminal · #1 Oct 18th 2005, 2:55 pm

Quote:

October 18, 2005. A Swedish couple have named their newborn after their favorite technology company--Google....

Read the full story at http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-590...0204&subj=news and http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/...letters-3.html

aeiouy · #2 Oct 18th 2005, 2:57 pm

I believe google means fish guts in swedish.

Liminal · #3 Oct 18th 2005, 3:00 pm

At least Google sounds better than Dogpile as a name for your kid

aeiouy · #4 Oct 18th 2005, 3:01 pm

Jeeves Dogile Google II

links_mngr · #5 Oct 18th 2005, 3:02 pm

Quote from Sergey Brin

"We chose our system name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10100 and fits well with our goal of building very large-scale search engines."

geej · #6 Oct 18th 2005, 3:23 pm

If a company offered to pay you, $500 dollars per month for the rest of your life. If you changed your name to, their company name. Would you take the offer.

Toonces51 · #7 Oct 18th 2005, 3:25 pm

Well, if ESPN can have a kid named after them, why not Google, I guess. Has anyone auctioned off naming rights for their kid on eBay yet? I have to imagine GoldenPalace.com would pay for that...

Maybe I should go home and have a talk with the wife...

Toonces51

kkibak · #8 Oct 18th 2005, 3:27 pm

If someone offered you. $500 for the rest of your life, to. Form complete sentences. Would you take the offer? j/k

Toonces51 · #9 Oct 18th 2005, 3:35 pm

Nah, I'd want more, and up front.

Anyone know where the guy got a doctorate in Search Engine Marketing? I haven't heard of any programs like that...when I went to school (not too long ago, either--4-5 years) I had one session of one class devoted to online marketing, and I finished a marketing degree and and advertising degree.

I know the same school offers classes in interactive marketing (tought by a professor who apparently didn't know too much--when he quoted prices from Yahoo's rate card at the time, she informed him that we were currently paying about 10% of that price). But I still haven't heard of any legit degrees in online marketing...anyone else?

Toonces51

aeiouy · #10 Oct 18th 2005, 9:14 pm

I was actually born at the time the first man walked on the moon. Local paper wanted my parents to name me after one of the Astronauts.... They said sure, just give us a little college scholarship or something.

No can do.. So I am not Buzz or Neil or Alan!

**Crazy_Rob** · #11 Oct 18th 2005, 9:45 pm

I'm going to name my kid, "Ditka".

If I have a girl she'll be named, "Gale"

or maybe, "Payton"

minstrel · #12 Oct 18th 2005, 10:41 pm

This is another urban myth. It's been around for a while, too. The last time it appeared, the child in question had been named Yahoo. It was a fake then too.

minstrel · #13 Oct 18th 2005, 10:43 pm

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Originally Posted by C_R

or maybe, "Payton"

Bad idea. When she gets her first apartment, it will be known as Payton's Place. As her father, you'll never get a full night's sleep again.

Nintendo · #14 Oct 18th 2005, 11:13 pm

Something tells me Google's crummy lawyers havn't seen the story or they would of probably busted the domain for having Google in the name and then try to sue the kid for 75 years worth of so called trademark infringment!!!!!!

**ViciousSummer** · #15 Oct 19th 2005, 12:23 am

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Originally Posted by Toonces51

...Has anyone auctioned off naming rights for their kid on eBay yet? I have to imagine GoldenPalace.com would pay for that...

You're a few months behind and $15,000 poorer

http://www.goldenpalaceevents.com/au...abynamed01.php

Toonces51 · #16 Oct 19th 2005, 10:15 am

I figured it was probably done...I probably read about it then too, and just blocked it out of my memory.

Guess it's back to buying bags of patato chips and hoping that one will look like someone famous...

Toonces51

Liminal · #17 Oct 19th 2005, 10:52 am

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Originally Posted by ViciousSummer

You're a few months behind and $15,000 poorer

http://www.goldenpalaceevents.com/au...abynamed01.php

Boy, can the moving ad on this be any more annoying?

Dread · #18 Oct 21st 2005, 10:13 pm

I tryed to search to see if anyone else has posted about this but couldnt find anything. Also i didnt know if it was ok to put it in this category, but it IS google related. :P

A couple in sweden have named their child "google". You can read more about it at my blog.

Sorry for pimping my blog but it is interesting. Would you name your child Froogle or Adsense?

minstrel · #19 Oct 22nd 2005, 10:38 am

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Originally Posted by Dread

A couple in sweden have named their child "google". You can read more about it at my blog.

Sorry for pimping my blog but it is interesting. Would you name your child Froogle or Adsense?

Did you not read the first post in this thread?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Liminal

A son named 'Google'

Quote:

October 18, 2005. A Swedish couple have named their newborn after their favorite technology company--Google....

Read the full story at http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-590...0204&subj=news and http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/...letters-3.html

It's also almost certainly untrue.

aspidov · #20 Oct 22nd 2005, 11:16 am

I wouldn't, but a lot of homeless people would!

Quote:

Originally Posted by kkibak

If someone offered you. $500 for the rest of your life, to. Form complete sentences. Would you take the offer? j/k

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