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I really wanted to believe that was Etsy's etymology, but alas it is not:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/04/22/website.name.origins.mf...

(Not sure if that's what you were implying, clever idea though.)




I wish that page had mentioned that Bing is derived from "Bing is not Google" ... even if it isn't true ;-)


Thanks for finding an actual source on this!




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