From the “Sometimes This All Scares Us” Department comes this item from that day’s Wall Street Journal (fee that day, but maybe not tomorrow.) Basically, it’s about a couple that decided on their newborn son’s name by…well…just read this:
So when Ms. Wilson, then 32, was pregnant with her first child, she ran every baby name she and her husband, Justin, considered through Google to make sure their baby wouldn’t be born unsearchable. Her top choice: Kohler, an old family name that had the key, rare distinction of being uncommon on the Web when paired with Wilson. “Justin and I wanted our son’s name to be as special as he is,” she explains.
So now, thanks to Google, her son is named after a plumbing fixtures company. (Oh wait…buried in the story is the tidbit that they actually came to their senses and went with Benjamin instead. “Kohler,” it seems, would have subjected him to playground ridicule. Just wait ’til he gets online…)
Our kids are going to be so, so unclickable…