How Google & Nike Got Their Names?

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oi-Staff

Friday, November 27, 2009, 11:28

Google got its name from googol, the number one followed by 100 zeroes which represents the amount of information the site was expected to cover.

Nike got its name from the goddess of victory. Nike, the goddess can run and fly at great speed.

There are many books revealing the weird and wonderful ways some of the world's top firms got their names from.

While many companies like Sainsbury's or Marks & Spencer are named after real people, others have bizarre beginnings.

The tyre giant Bridgestone sounds English but is a translation of the founder's surname, Ishibashi, ther
Japanese word for stone bridge.

However, software company Oracle does not have any connection with mythology. Instead, it comes from a top secret CIA project that founders Larry Ellison, Ed Oates and Bob Milner were working on, before they started the firm.

Ikea is a combination of the initials of the founder named Ingmar Kamprad and his farm called Elmtaryd in the Swedish town Agunnaryd.

Aldi is a cross between the Albrecht family who began the firm and the word discount!