BackRub???

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mental_floss wrote:[...]In 1996, Stanford computer science grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page started working on a new web crawling search engine. Since the engine used backlinks to gauge how important a site was, the enterprising pair called their creation “BackRub.” By 1997 they decided this name wasn’t so hot and brainstormed some new ideas before eventually settling on “Google.”

[...]“BackRub” sounds positively inspired compared to this behemoth of a title. When David Filo and Jerry Yang started a guide to Internet content in 1994, they christened it “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” Like Page and Brin, they quickly realized they might need a name that took less than three minutes to say, so they switched to a word they liked from the dictionary – one that described someone who was “rude, unsophisticated, and uncouth.” And that’s how Yahoo! was born.[...]
lol. wow.