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Re:Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger by randylubin on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @07:14PM (#12090483)
Branding it the same name as Amazon Echo's chat agent (also Alexa) seems like trouble...
Re:Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger by jswny on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @08:57PM (#12090990)
Even if has no problem with copyright I fail to see how naming something like this the same name as a very popular product can do anything except make it harder to find. Nobody's ever going to find this thing in Google unless they go through pages of results about Amazon's product.
Re:Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger by bllguo on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @07:45PM (#12090635)
It's not like there's a shortage of available female names. I don't understand their motivations.
Re:Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger by JonRB on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @07:23PM (#12090520)
And Amazon's other service, found at alexa.com
Re:Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger by schoen on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @07:39PM (#12090603)
These, in turn, ultimately owe their name to the Library of Alexandria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet#Operations_and_...

Re:Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger by richdougherty on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @08:11PM (#12090791)
Which owes its name to Alexander the Great.
Re:Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger by solipsism on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @08:57PM (#12090986)
Who in turn owes his name to Alexander II of Macedon.
Re:Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger by gohrt on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:06PM (#12091028)
No, to Alexander I of Macedon.

Alexander II was Alexander (III) the Great's uncle.

Re:Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger by solipsism on Thursday July 14, 2016 @12:09AM (#12091571)
So what if he was his uncle? People are named after their uncles. Alexander II ruled well before the birth of Alexander III (during the boyhood of his father in fact) and would have been a perfectly logical namesake.
Re:Alexa: A dating bot for Facebook Messenger by jonathankoren on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @07:54PM (#12090692)
And yet, they didn't use the name Alexandria.