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kome on Dec 7, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building a Search Engine from Scratch

google is such a stupid name to be honest, and what the hell with amazon, is it some Brazilian website?

richardw on Dec 7, 2019 [–]

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."

https://mashable.com/2011/07/22/facts-amazon-com/

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