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Originally Posted by kstar
There's a slew of companies that appear to have created strange "blended" names simply to get a relatively short and original name.
It started before the Net with names like Accura (Accurate + ?) and Lexus (Luxury Nexus?).
Now we have Accenture, Innova and Firedog and many other oddities that look they were made solely to get their own domain name.
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If you said "Google" "Boingo" and "Yahoo" to me in the course of regular conversation in the not-so-distant past, I'd be calling the funny farm to take you away.