Why call it G ?

I've noticed in forums people always talk about "G" "Big G" "G**gle" etc.

Is there some reason for this? Are they a bit paranoid and don't like being talked about or something?

Thanks

 

It gets talked about so much that it saves about 10K character a day if we all said G. Saves Shawn some bandwith

If we talk about G, Y and M and everybody understands it, all the better IMO.

 

Especially since very few webmasters every go to a GYM

 

Yeah, G's just an SLA like BBC's a TLA... no point wearing out your kb for that

 

And if you let php parse a css via .js then G might think you over seo and manipulate the serps whereas y and m don't care. Ibls fit in nicely too.

 

It's easier, and YOU understand it just fine

 

lol maybe we should publish a digital point newbies guide to acronyms (call it the DPNGA)

 

Some doofus once asked what 'in the UK' was standing for. (Guess where they were from )

 

sure I understand what they mean ok, I just wondered if there was some undelying reason for things like G**gle, as that doesn't save time or space.

 

Perhaps people are disgruntled at being put in the sandbox. Who really knows.

 

The Ukraine?

 

They were from america without a doubt.

 

We're not ALL ignorant boobs over here. I admit that the preponderance of evidence does favor that impression, but really..

I have a Unix/Linux consultants list at http://aplawrence.com/consultants.html

It's a free listing, and all that I ask is that people not abbreviate their Country etc. so that I can sort these things together.

Almost nobody does - American or otherwise. I used to try to take the time to figure out what they meant, even backtracing their IP for a clue, but I've pretty much given that up - if I can't easily figure it out, the listing goes to the digital trash bucket.

 

I actually understood that phrase without problems... don't know if that is good or bad

 

I was just stereotyping based on that evidence

 

Does anyone really care?

 

No one I know who is in the right mind calls it G. People I know just call it Google.