Re:Building a Search Engine from Scratch
by kome on Friday December 06, 2019 @07:08PM
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google is such a stupid name to be honest, and what the hell with amazon, is it some Brazilian website?
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Re:Building a Search Engine from Scratch
by richardw on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:38PM
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Googol can help:
"Bezos instead named the business after the river reportedly for two reasons. One, to suggest scale (Amazon.com launched with the tagline "Earth's biggest book store") and two, back then website listings were often alphabetical."