Google’s Mix and Match Naming Process

by Walter Naeslund on December 18, 2007

Can anyone explain to me why iGoogle is called iGoogle? Isn’t Googles prefix “g”, and not “i”? Why don’t they name things congruently?

I honestly don’t get it. Google Docs, Google Earth, Gmail, iGoogle. Choose one and be consistent: gDocs, gWorld, gMail and… gSpot, or whatever. But pick one.

Google makes me think of Julia Roberts’ line in Pretty Woman “what do you want it to be”. It’s neither a house of brands or a branded house. A little congruency please.

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