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abrowne on June 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

"Guge" is apparently the name by which "Google wants to be known in China."[1]

[1]: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/guge.html

w1ntermute on June 13, 2012 [–]

More specifically, "Gǔgē" is the Pinyin rendering of "谷歌", Google's name in hanzi. The characters literally mean "valley song".

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