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		ben509 on Dec 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a Search Engine from Scratch Replacing the 'ol' suffix in 'googol' brings 'google' much closer to common English phonetics. These could all be pronounced the same but would have been a harder sell: * gugal -- like frugal * gugle -- like bugle * ghougle -- like ghoul * googull -- like gull

ExtraServings on Dec 7, 2019 [–]

So should they rebrand as Clickle?

big_chungus on Dec 7, 2019 | [–]

That would actually fall within the "goofy name but phonetically consistent" category that would be excusable once big, so maybe.

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