SA man creates Doogle, Google not happy

paul5186 said:
Yawn, sob story. Fact is that it does look and sound like the google logo. Rather he change the name.
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You can't be serious lol. It's not even easy to mistype. If you can own a computer, you will know the difference between doogle and google.
 
ave said:
Here's the question- why did he choose the name doogle? If his surname is Doogle, or whatever, then I have no problem with it. But without knowing the facts, I would tend to lean towards saying he more than likely took the phrase google it and fong-kong'd it hoping to ride in the google wake.
Just as nike can go after a shoe manufacturer branding their shoes Mike or Nice, google can and should go after this clown.
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People do that all the time. Mostly it just looks tacky. It certainly isn't going to harm Google's brand. Try facebook.com or twitter.com with a typo here and there...
 
I haven't seen the letter itself and the article is a bit sketchy on the question but my guess is google is being over cautious and a trigger happy legalistic drew up the letter. I do hope that Google SA gets brought into the issue and the fact that googles corporate mantra is opposed to doing evil they will easily be pressured into doing the right thing.
 
funny how a company from a small beginning turns to a bully when it has lots of cash to burn.
 
Google Evil? Of all the names he could have chosen, he decides to be a smart-ass. Would you accept that?
 
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Mathematics and the Imagination is a book published in New York by Simon & Schuster in 1940. The authors are Edward Kasner and James R. Newman. It rapidly became a best-seller and received several glowing reviews. Special publicity has been awarded it since it introduced the term googol for 10^100, and googolplex for 10^googol.

Origin of the name "Google"

In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin called their initial search engine "BackRub," named for its analysis of the web's "back links." Larry's office was in room 360 of the Gates CS Building, which he shared with several other graduate students, including Sean Anderson, Tamara Munzner, and Lucas Pereira. In 1997, Larry and his officemates discussed a number of possible new names for the rapidly improving search technology. Sean recalls the final brainstorming session as occurring one day during September of that year.

Sean and Larry were in their office, using the whiteboard, trying to think up a good name - something that related to the indexing of an immense amount of data. Sean verbally suggested the word "googolplex," and Larry responded verbally with the shortened form, "googol" (both words refer to specific large numbers). Sean was seated at his computer terminal, so he executed a search of the Internet domain name registry database to see if the newly suggested name was still available for registration and use. Sean is not an infallible speller, and he made the mistake of searching for the name spelled as "google.com," which he found to be available. Larry liked the name, and within hours he took the step of registering the name "google.com" for himself and Sergey (the domain name registration record dates from September 15, 1997).
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So now Google wants to sue someone for using doodle.com because it sounds like the name they stole from Edward Kasner. How about suing www.googirl.com.
 
The Inquirer May 18 2004

Googol may sue Google


NOW THAT Google's IPO is running, the company is on the verge of being sued by the family of a man who invented the word 'Googol' to describe a very big number.

Professor Edward Kasner came up with the word Googol, apparently at the suggestion of his 9-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta.

He used the term in the 1940s in his book, Mathematics and the Imagination. For the record a googol is 10 raised to the 100th power - or the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros.

In 1955 he died and much later a search engine called Google was born. His relatives claim that Kasner must be spinning in his grave. They believe Google has gained financially at their expense and they want to become IPO insiders to put his soul to rest.

Hacks from the Baltimore Sun interviewed Kasner's great-niece Peri Fleisher who is coincidently a compensation specialist for a Silicon Valley firm. She admitted that she was only four when Kasner died, and could only just remember him.

She said that although Google has bought attention to the name, it has not bought attention to Kasner's work. Google was not using the concepts, but just capitalising on the name, she said. And who is the heir to Kasner's work? Step forward Fleisher's son, who has the rights to the book.

She said she had written to Google but it had never replied. She said that Google is playing off that number and not compensating them even a little bit. Ethically, it could have been more giving. She does not want cash just the opportunity to operate as insiders for the IPO.

Now they are thinking of suing.
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Google is just full of sht. Googol is a mathematical term just like pi.

Video: ( 2 min 56 sec )Origins of the Word 'Google' - Roy Blount, Jr.

Video: ( 3 min 27 s) Googol and Googolplex by Carl Sagan
 
google doogle

google doogle, and youll see doogle.org/.com/.co.nz already in existance. Why pick on co.za?
 
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