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Re:G is for Google by DonHopkins on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @07:27AM (#10040238)
The alphabet is better than planets because you can always throw in more Unicode letters, while those damn astronomers took away a perfectly good planet!
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Re:G is for Google by beaner on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @02:46PM (#10043438)
I don't get it.
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Re:G is for Google by DonHopkins on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @03:00PM (#10043526)
It's hard for a company like Sun to have a collection, a variety, a spectrum of companies, when busy-body astronomers feel compelled to reclassify your favorite planet as a "dwarf" out from under you.

http://www.cbronline.com/news/sun_microsystems_announces_plu...

But Alphabet has a long way to go beyond the 26 English letters, before they run out of funny diacritical Unicode letters with umlauts, accents, slashes, ligatures and dingbats.

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Re:G is for Google by beaner on Thursday August 20, 2015 @12:55PM (#10093083)
Right, that's what I was saying. The point is obviously not to collect one company for each letter. When they have 5 companies that start with G, are you really going to look at them and say "LOL I TOLD YOU SO"? The name just means variety, not a specific naming plan.
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