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the Omrud
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:05 pm
Post subject: Re: Ipsi Wipsy Mail Controller |
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Skitt typed thus:
| Quote: | the Omrud wrote:
Skitt typed thus:
the Omrud wrote:
R H Draney typed thus:
Slachtoffer#36 filted:
Summary: We need a creative productname?
The final approach we've selected is to get a word that doesn't
exist at all, just like Google once did. So we came up with words
like hakkadoo, ippix, dadido and ipsiwipsi. Bit childisch though.
"Google" was taken from an existing mathematical term meaning (to
the degree required by its founders) "a very big number"
Oh no it wasn't.
From their site at
http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html
What's a Google?
"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The
term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician
Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the
Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term
reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of
information available on the web.
I'm still not convinced that "google" was "taken from" googol. I
reckon they found an unused but pronounceable word, registered it in
all territories and then happened on an explanation.
However, I was really commenting on the fact that "google" is not
"googol".
Nobody claimed that it was. You reacted to "taken from", not "is".
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a) yes, I did, you're right and I went too far in my protestation,
but
b) I was fired up by the first reply to the OP, which was:
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| Quote: | The final approach we've selected is to get a word that doesn't
exist at all, just like Google once did.
Ha - what word was that then?
Clearly not "Google" 
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which implies that "google" was a word, before Google.
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David
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Jim Lawton
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:02 pm
Post subject: Re: Ipsi Wipsy Mail Controller |
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On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:40:05 -0000, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Jim Lawton typed thus:
On 6 Dec 2004 08:08:50 -0800, inet.pw@planet.nl (Slachtoffer#36) wrote:
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The final approach we've selected is to get a word that doesn't exist
at all, just like Google once did.
Ha - what word was that then?
Clearly not "Google" :-)
Really? What do you think "google" meant before Google?
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Well, if one simply types "google eyed" into Google (groups) you will find over
1000 entries going back to 1988.
as in :-
who get all google- eyed watching flipper
it is time for all of us
die-hard Macintosh gamers to stop staring google-eyed at shitty PC games
Anyone doing a Phd in Theoretical Chemistry must be an anti-social,
google-eyed masochist,
whether such usage is correct or not is not the point .. a large number of
people obviously googled long before Google.
OK?
Jim |
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:03 am
Post subject: Re: Ipsi Wipsy Mail Controller |
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On 6 Dec 2004 08:08:50 -0800, inet.pw@planet.nl (Slachtoffer#36)
wrote:
| Quote: | Summary: We need a creative productname
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You also felt a need to advertise. This ain't the place.
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Charles Riggs
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John Dean
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:03 am
Post subject: Re: Ipsi Wipsy Mail Controller |
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the Omrud wrote:
| Quote: | Skitt typed thus:
the Omrud wrote:
Skitt typed thus:
the Omrud wrote:
R H Draney typed thus:
Slachtoffer#36 filted:
Summary: We need a creative productname?
The final approach we've selected is to get a word that doesn't
exist at all, just like Google once did. So we came up with
words like hakkadoo, ippix, dadido and ipsiwipsi. Bit childisch
though.
"Google" was taken from an existing mathematical term meaning (to
the degree required by its founders) "a very big number"
Oh no it wasn't.
From their site at
http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html
What's a Google?
"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American
mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book,
"Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman.
Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to
organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
I'm still not convinced that "google" was "taken from" googol. I
reckon they found an unused but pronounceable word, registered it in
all territories and then happened on an explanation.
However, I was really commenting on the fact that "google" is not
"googol".
Nobody claimed that it was. You reacted to "taken from", not "is".
a) yes, I did, you're right and I went too far in my protestation,
but
b) I was fired up by the first reply to the OP, which was:
======
The final approach we've selected is to get a word that doesn't
exist at all, just like Google once did.
Ha - what word was that then?
Clearly not "Google"
======
which implies that "google" was a word, before Google.
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.... which, as I posted earlier, it was.
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John Dean
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John Dean
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:03 am
Post subject: Re: Ipsi Wipsy Mail Controller |
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Tony Cooper wrote:
| Quote: | On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:16:14 -0000, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com
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whether such usage is correct or not is not the point .. a large
number of people obviously googled long before Google.
OK?
OK, but I never came across that - I would say "goggle-eyed".
But if you sing it, it comes out "With the goo, goo, googly eyes".
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Unless you'd rather sing "Ipsi wipsy teeny weeny yellow email
in-betweeny"
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John Dean
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:04 am
Post subject: Re: Ipsi Wipsy Mail Controller |
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Jim Lawton typed thus:
| Quote: | On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:40:05 -0000, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com> wrote:
Jim Lawton typed thus:
On 6 Dec 2004 08:08:50 -0800, inet.pw@planet.nl (Slachtoffer#36) wrote:
snip
The final approach we've selected is to get a word that doesn't exist
at all, just like Google once did.
Ha - what word was that then?
Clearly not "Google" :-)
Really? What do you think "google" meant before Google?
Well, if one simply types "google eyed" into Google (groups) you will find over
1000 entries going back to 1988.
as in :-
who get all google- eyed watching flipper
it is time for all of us
die-hard Macintosh gamers to stop staring google-eyed at shitty PC games
Anyone doing a Phd in Theoretical Chemistry must be an anti-social,
google-eyed masochist,
whether such usage is correct or not is not the point .. a large number of
people obviously googled long before Google.
OK?
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OK, but I never came across that - I would say "goggle-eyed".
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David
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Tony Cooper
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:04 am
Post subject: Re: Ipsi Wipsy Mail Controller |
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:16:14 -0000, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com>
wrote:
| Quote: | whether such usage is correct or not is not the point .. a large number of
people obviously googled long before Google.
OK?
OK, but I never came across that - I would say "goggle-eyed".
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But if you sing it, it comes out "With the goo, goo, googly eyes". |
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don groves
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:05 am
Post subject: Re: Ipsi Wipsy Mail Controller |
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In article <cp5kbs$8oj$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>, John Dean at
john-dean@frag.lineone.net exposited:
| Quote: | Tony Cooper wrote:
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:16:14 -0000, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com
wrote:
whether such usage is correct or not is not the point .. a large
number of people obviously googled long before Google.
OK?
OK, but I never came across that - I would say "goggle-eyed".
But if you sing it, it comes out "With the goo, goo, googly eyes".
Unless you'd rather sing "Ipsi wipsy teeny weeny yellow email
in-betweeny"
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Or, "One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple email eater".
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dg (domain=ccwebster) |
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