Here is a list of some great technology companies having unique names and how they came up with there respective names.
Google is the best search engine. Its name is now a synonym to search. Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine “BackRub”, because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word “googol”, the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was meant to signify the amount of information the search engine was to handle.
Canon
Canon was founded in 1933. The first camera launched by Canon was named Kwanon. Kwanon which is the Japanese name of the Buddhist bodhisattva of mercy was the inspiration for the name.
Yahoo
The word Yahoo was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver’s Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and barely human. Yahoo! founders David Filo and Jerry Yang jokingly considered themselves yahoos.
Apple
For the favorite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked at an apple orchard, and to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by other computer companies at the time such as IBM, DEC,Cincom and Tesseract
eBay
Pierre Omidyar, who had created the Auction Web trading website, had formed a web consulting concern called Echo Bay Technology Group. “Echo Bay” didn’t refer to the town in Nevada, “It just sounded cool”, Omidyar reportedly said.
Asus
Named after Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology. The first three letters of the word were dropped to get a high position in alphabetical listings. An Asus company named Pegatron, using the spare letters, was spun off in 2008.
Digg
Kevin Rose’s friend David Prager originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name “Digg”, because users are able to “dig” stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered, by Walt Disney Internet Group.
Name stems from the colloquial name of books given to newly enrolled students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.
The name was derived from the original idea ‘Twitch’, which didn’t bring up the right imagery.
Source: wikipedia
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This is interesting. Actually, it’s really hard to find a good unique name =)
ya it is. but i think unique names can never be thought, they just come up from anywhere
Hahahahaha… Maybe I can add one more, My name Zezebel, stand for famous filiphino actress in the 80′s. Interesting reading my friend, Thanks.
These names are now top brands . It motivates to think different with unique and accidental brand names which now rock the internet .
Brillinant info , thanks for sharing with us
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Very interesting post….
I always love Apple and google…… They are been exceptional…..
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All the nine companies are at the peak of their success & has worldwide name.
face book has seen a success very shortly.
it’s a great post! Simply superb collection
I love that Asus’s first three letters drop off just for getting higher in alphabetical listings!
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