Google’s Acquhire Binge(gigaom.com)

25 pointsby packetloss16 yıl önce5 comments

http://gigaom.com/2010/02/17/googles-acquhire-binge/

3 comments

It took me a moment to parse the portmanteau of "acquire" and "hire," but I finally put it together. This article is currently the top hit for the neologism: http://www.google.com/search?q=acquhire

(My first impression of the headline was that it was some sort of quasi-literate mangling of an impossible headline about Google acquiring Bing.)

buster16 yıl önce

To me it just looked like a typo and immediately let me think "mhh, when the author can't even spell check his headline, what could the article be worth".

You never should do such things.

c1sc016 yıl önce

acquihire would have been a better neologism

davidedicillo16 yıl önce

We all know they did it because of the name. They just want traffic from people misspelling Bing.

sundarurfriend16 yıl önce

On reading the title, I too thought Googlers might have found it amusing to acquire a company called Binge. But then, thankfully, I read the article.

This makes me think though - we are losing some information by making the titles into Title Case, namely the information of what is a proper noun and what is not. Is the slightly improved readability worth the loss? I personally don't think so.

[deleted]16 yıl önce