Why is Bing called Bing, and Ning called Ning?

    SMH explains how seven popular tech companies got their names.

    Bing.

    Microsoft was looking for something short, easy and global; and a name that would eventually convert to a verb, like "google."

    Vimeo.

    The videosharing's site's name is an anagram of "movie" and also "me" squished into "video."

    Goop.

    Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle website is named after her nickname "Goop," which is a take on her initials GP.

    Flickr.

    The site's founders wanted to name it "Flicker," like flicker of a candle or a screen. But "flicker" was taken, so they dropped the "e."

    Ning.

    The social networking service's name mean's "peace" in Chinese. It also fit into the founder's requirement of a "short and sweet name."

    Orkut.

    Named after the Google engineer who created the site - Orkut Buyukkokten.

    Yahoo!

    Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." A less geeky reason the founders chose this name was the dictionary meaning of the word, which is - "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

    Bing為什么叫Bing?Ning為什么要叫Ning?SMH解釋了七家最流行網(wǎng)絡(luò)公司的名稱由來。

    Bing

    Microsoft一直在找一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)短、簡(jiǎn)單以及適合全球化的域名，而且這個(gè)域名要和Google一樣在用戶的腦海里成一個(gè)動(dòng)詞。

    Vimeo

    這個(gè)視頻分享站域名是Movie的變體，同時(shí)也是Me和Video的混合體。

    Goop

    Gwyneth Paltrow的生活資訊站，Goop是她的小名，取代姓名縮寫GP.

    Flickr

    網(wǎng)站創(chuàng)始人原本想出的名稱是Flicker,意思是屏幕或者蠟燭的閃爍，可惜被人注冊(cè)了，所以他們?nèi)サ袅擞蛎�中的e,成了Flickr.

    Ning

    這個(gè)SNS站點(diǎn)名稱在中國(guó)的意思是和平，它同時(shí)符合創(chuàng)始人對(duì)域名簡(jiǎn)短甜蜜的要求。

    Orkut

    名稱來自創(chuàng)始人，同時(shí)也是Google工程師Orkut Buyukkokten的名字。

    Yahoo!

    Yahoo是"Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"的縮寫，同時(shí)也存在一個(gè)另類的解釋：創(chuàng)始人選擇這個(gè)名稱的原因是因?yàn)閅ahoo這個(gè)名稱粗暴，簡(jiǎn)單、粗魯。