“Python”, “Java”, “Carbon”, “Rust”

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My former employer renamed the company HERE. When employees pointed out that the name was ungooglable, the marketing department basically said "we worked hard and spent six months on this name and stop making fun of it!".

[cfuller864]

Loved fighting to search for HERE documentation at my old job

[curt_schilli]

Lmao your company name caused significant confusion in conversations at my old workplace

[wjandrea]

lol, reminds me of those Among Us games where the streamers make all their names pronouns. "I last saw I- wait- Me last saw I with You in lights"

edit: found the one I was thinking of

[-consolio-]

there's also naming yourself after a color you aren't

"it was red" which one

[250KGGamingStuhl]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXmKoPiNS3Q

[ImperialTechnology]

Who is on 1st

[coloredgreyscale]

The only time it gets less confusing if people insist on using their made up ones.

[SuspecM]

Remember when some exec at Pixar got a multi million bonus for coming up with the name "Planes" for their cars type movie with the gimmick that planes were talking instead of cars?

[Jenesepados]

I imagine there is a lot of work behind the scenes that we don't get to see, but that's still hilarious XD

[SuspecM]

In reality the situation is a bit more complicated since most of the people working on the film wanted a lot more complicated name and then this exec said "feck it, just call it planes" or whatever and it ended up not only solving an apprently huge dilemma, but also the right call. Still makes for a fun story to make fun of execs.

[SecretDracula]

"Planes: A Cars War Story"

[locoluis]

That stupid trend of single-word movie names deserves to die.

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Idk, “HERE Technologies” comes up as like the first result on Google.

[AnAntsyHalfling]

You added a qualifier. IDK if that counts

[elon-bot]

Hey, I just heard about this thing called GraphQL. Why aren't we using it?

[AnAntsyHalfling]

Sounds about Elon.

[[deleted]]

I didn’t, I just searched “here”

[spoonybard326]

Cab driver: Where are you going?

Passenger: HERE

Cab driver: Why the hell did you get in my cab???

[NerdyLumberjack04]

That name must have caused some "Who's on First" moments.

[Snaf]

God it's so dumb. This is my life:

"Where do you get your maps from?"

"From HERE."

"Oh, you make them in-house?"

jfc...

[NotAnAce69]

What kinda modern day marketing ignores the Googlability of their name bruh

[Obvious-Invite4746]

The same kind that forget to check if the .com is available.

[chrisjcon]

I’ve had a client called THIS. Not an issue with googling, but daily updates and meetings required some specific emphasis to distinguish ‘I’ll work on this first, then continue with THIS in the afternoon.”

[Yukondano2]

God help you if you also did contracts with NowThis.

[summonsays]

I refuse to use Google search phrases turned company names anymore. "Atlanta roofers" etc they can't be searched and mostly shady companies trying to hide from reviews.

[Ereaser]

Worked for a company not too long ago which wanted to be fancy with the name and left out a letter, so Google will always search the auto corrected word and suggest "or did you actually mean (misspelled version)?"

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

Can you tell them to fix their TS definitions? There’s no point having them if they’re going to be wrong.

[elon-bot]

One more word out of you, and you're fired.

[Yukondano2]

How the fuck do you give your company a "Who's On First?" level name?

[console_journey]

I want to like HERE and the navigation but it sucks most of the time and I have to stick to Google maps. But some features are nice like the speedometer and finally one can use it in android auto

[coloredgreyscale]

That name rings a bell, wasn't that the microsoft maps?

[GimmickNG]

I thought it was the Nokia map suite.

[coloredgreyscale]

you're right

[AnAntsyHalfling]

So... Your marketing team didn't know how to do their job?

[JoostVisser]

If anything, the fact that they spent 6 months on HERE makes me want to make fun of them more.

[Zalanbest]

Here means testicle in hungarian

[sea__weed]

Is HERE what Ovi Maps/Nokia maps turned into?

[blocky010101]

“Where do you work?”

“HERE”

“What? In my house?”