• Google's Choice of the Word "Eureka!"

    Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

    J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

    As an addendum to our coverage of Google’s new Co-op customizable search product that launched yesterday – Google officially announced the news on their blog today with a post titled “Eureka! Your own search engine has landed!”

    I wonder if Shashi Seth and R.V. Guha, the authors of the post, intended to incorporate part of the name of one of the primary existing players in the customizable search space – Eurekster – into the blog post announcing the new product. “Eureka!” is pretty damn close to “Eurekster,” although something tells me this was more of a Freudian slip rather than a conscious jab at a competitor. Either way, it’s an interesting choice of words.

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