Why is Bing called Bing, and Ning called Ning?

    SMH explains how seven popular tech companies got their names.

    Bing.

    Microsoft was looking for something short, easy and global; and a name that would eventually convert to a verb, like "google."

    Vimeo.

    The videosharing's site's name is an anagram of "movie" and also "me" squished into "video."

    Goop.

    Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle website is named after her nickname "Goop," which is a take on her initials GP.

    Flickr.

    The site's founders wanted to name it "Flicker," like flicker of a candle or a screen. But "flicker" was taken, so they dropped the "e."

    Ning.

    The social networking service's name mean's "peace" in Chinese. It also fit into the founder's requirement of a "short and sweet name."

    Orkut.

    Named after the Google engineer who created the site - Orkut Buyukkokten.

    Yahoo!

    Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." A less geeky reason the founders chose this name was the dictionary meaning of the word, which is - "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

    Bing为什么叫Bing?Ning为什么要叫Ning?SMH解释了七家最流行网络公司的名称由来。

    Bing

    Microsoft一直在找一个简短、简单以及适合全球化的域名，而且这个域名要和Google一样在用户的脑海里成一个动词。

    Vimeo

    这个视频分享站域名是Movie的变体，同时也是Me和Video的混合体。

    Goop

    Gwyneth Paltrow的生活资讯站，Goop是她的小名，取代姓名缩写GP.

    Flickr

    网站创始人原本想出的名称是Flicker,意思是屏幕或者蜡烛的闪烁，可惜被人注册了，所以他们去掉了域名中的e,成了Flickr.

    Ning

    这个SNS站点名称在中国的意思是和平，它同时符合创始人对域名简短甜蜜的要求。

    Orkut

    名称来自创始人，同时也是Google工程师Orkut Buyukkokten的名字。

    Yahoo!

    Yahoo是"Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"的缩写，同时也存在一个另类的解释：创始人选择这个名称的原因是因为Yahoo这个名称粗暴，简单、粗鲁。