Naming is also a science

The names of the famous Internet and technology companies that we see on the internet every day, the news, the Friends, and the cats. Do you know why they call that name? They are successful now, we talk about them catchy, but probably most people don't know the story of their name.

The cat has worked in the internet industry for many years, love the industry, like to understand these interesting things. Just today and friends to talk about naming this topic, friends of various Internet company's name is very curious, the cat gave him a science, a whim I simply tidy up, give you cat friends also popular science, name origin are very interesting oh! Let ' s go!

Ranked in the first place, there are giants also have stars, maybe some cat friends already know some of the names of the origin of the name, summed up well! Next to look down, I interspersed to write.

"Google" name a lot of people should be not unfamiliar, its name is originally called "Googol", is the mathematical term inside 10 of the 100 power (write is 1 after 100 0), seemingly registered when the alphabet wrong, and just "google.com" this domain name no one registered, became today's Google.

"BlackBerry" Everyone is not strange? The famous American business mobile phone brand, Obama's favorite mobile phone is the BlackBerry. The name "BlackBerry" was set in 1999, because the BlackBerry's most classic physical button looks like the BlackBerry fruit in the fruit, so just call it! (Use BlackBerry to know the dense physical button)

"Amazon" Everyone is not unfamiliar, but the origin of the name to know not many people, it is said that the name is Amazon founder Bezos originally wanted to start with a "a" letter first name, think of the last election "Amazon" because Amazon is the world's largest river, and Bezos's dream is to do the world's largest network retailer, So it's not the same!

Take a look at "canon", in fact, Canon's original name is a Buddhist goddess in the name of "Kwanon" named, later in 1935, in order to make the global user better familiar with the brand, the company changed its name to "Canon", may be the user so called convenient, changed?

The world's largest VoIP software "Skype" was originally named "Skyper" by "Sky Peer-to-peer" (Point-to-Point Network in the sky), later did not know God horse reason, seems to be because the domain name limit problem, the official "R" to throw, finally became now this " Skype. "

"Yahoo" The origin of this name has many versions, the main origin of the saying there are two, one is "verb Another hierarchical officious Oracle" abbreviation (very long ah I said!!) , another is the brutal, violent sci-fi species described in Gulliver's Travels. The reason Jerry Yang chose this name was because they liked the dictionary's definition of "Yahoo" as "rude and irregular", and he felt that they were such people. Wonderful！ ）

"Zynga" is a social gaming company in the United States, some people estimate it, its early game in the first 10 rankings of the Facebook game occupies 6 places, the main production of web games. What does it sound like to be such a short, powerful name? Oh, I tell you, founder Pinto Cass was named after his beloved American Bulldog "Zinga".

Haha, "Apple" is coming, according to Wozniak, one of the early founders, when Jobs once drove from Palo Alto to Los Altos, saying he suddenly thought of a great name-apple Consolidator (Apple Computer), but did not know why, Originally the Apple is complete, and later because of fear of being recognized by the user as another fruit, it came to a mouthful, haha!

"Snoring" is a video site in the United States, which was incorporated by NBC and News Corp in 07. Its chief executive, Jason Kilar, once said the origin of the name, in the N-time naming convention, someone put forward the name "Hulu", it has a meaning is "interactive recording" (Interactive record), which is very relevant to the mission and vision of the company, Literally, short and readable, and finally decided to use it!

The last one to talk about Twitter, founder Jack Dorsey, said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, that it was not appropriate to think of a lot of names in order to pick a proper name, and they wanted to be able to express a feeling that all over the world were chattering about topics, I was going to use the name "Twitch" (tic), but feel that it does not make people think of the right scene, then find, find, found the word "Twitter", check this is a kind of bird calls, then they think the bird is very short, frequency, fast connotation, and then set it!

Naming is also a science! Welcome, everybody!