Some websites have funny/seemingly random names. In fact these random names often have meaning that goes along with the sites purpose. Here is a list of some site names that have obscure meanings oh and a few that are obvious.

• Google.com sounds exactly like googol which is the number one followed by 100 zeros. It is the biggest number that gets a name not counting a googolplex which is a 1 followed by a googol zeros.
• fandango.com is the movie ticket website that advertises with puppets made out of  brown paper lunch bags. It is also the word for a lively Spanish-American dance performed in triple time by a man and woman playing castanets
• yahoo.com Takes its name from a word invented by Jonathon Swift in Gulliver’s Travels. The Yahoos were a race of coarse and vulgar. It has been expanded over the past two centuries to mean any utterly gross person: a slob with no common courtesy is a yahoo.
• facebook.com takes its name from publications distributed in schools or businesses, which helps members identify each other. In my high school the one of our favorite activities was going through the facebook and rating people.
• twitter.com comes from the word twitter which means to emit a succession of small, tremulous sounds, like a bird or to engage in idle chatter about trivial stuff
• bing.com it turns out the word bing in British English means a heap or pile of thing

Here is a list from Fast Company of the top 10 most addictive sounds in the world. For good measure we’ve got branded and non-branded.

The Intel one is probably my number one, it is almost subliminal for me, I hear it and think “Intel Inside”.

Non-branded and branded sounds:
1. Baby giggle
2. Intel
3. Vibrating phone
4. ATM / cash register
5. National Geographic
6. MTV
7. T-Mobile Ringtone
8. McDonald’s
9. ‘Star Spangled Banner’
10. State Farm

Top 10 Non-branded sounds:
1. Baby giggle
2. Vibrating phone
3. ATM / cash register
4. “Star Spangled Banner”
5. Sizzling steak
6. ‘Hail to the Chief‘
7. Cigarette light and inhale
8. “Wedding March”
9. “Wish Upon a Star”
10. Late Night with David Letterman Theme

This week adage released their A-list of agencies. Here is what they consider the top 10 agencies of 2009.

1. McGarryBowen I
2. Euro RSCG
3. Rockfish
4. Martin Agency
5. DraftFCB
6. AKQA
7. Alma DDB
8. Firstborn
9. Weber Shandwick
10. Venables