<![CDATA[Valleywag: Typo]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/valleywag.com.png <![CDATA[Valleywag: Typo]]> http://valleywag.com/tag/typo http://valleywag.com/tag/typo <![CDATA[ The $160 billion typo ]]> seanglint.gifStanford student Sean Anderson was the guy who gave Larry Page the name of his search engine and company:
Sean and Larry were in their office, 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." 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.
Where does Sean currently work? Microsoft.

]]>
Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:01:43 PDT Paul Boutin http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=315279&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ AOL gives a big NA NA NA ]]>

Tipster "Dropped Packet" submits this screencap with a note:

AOL's definitely more into the free, ad-supported content business these days — so much so that if you go onto AOL.com and try to sign up for a paid subscription, you're told that you'll get "NA NAs FREE for NA days."

Or perhaps that's AOL's message to existing subscribers who are ponying up $25.90 a month for the same stuff AOL is now giving away: "NA NA NA."
]]>
Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:30:00 PDT Nick Douglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=178935&view=rss&microfeed=true