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絡公司的名稱由來。

    Bing

    Microsoft一直在找一個簡短、簡單以及適合全球化的域名，而且這個域名要和Google一樣在用戶的腦海里成一個動詞。

    Vimeo

    這個視頻分享站域名是Movie的變體，同時也是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

    網站創始人原本想出的名稱是Flicker,意思是屏幕或者蠟燭的閃爍，可惜被人注冊了，所以他們去掉了域名中的e,成了Flickr.

    Ning

    這個SNS站點名稱在中國的意思是和平，它同時符合創始人對域名簡短甜蜜的要求。

    Orkut

    名稱來自創始人，同時也是Google工程師Orkut Buyukkokten的名字。

    Yahoo!

    Yahoo是"Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"的縮寫，同時也存在一個另類的解釋：創始人選擇這個名稱的原因是因為Yahoo這個名稱粗暴，簡單、粗魯。