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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_...

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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.
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