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mikek
on Aug 10, 2015
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G is for Google
It seems to me that their domain name (
https://abc.xyz/
), and maybe even the corporate name, was chosen to imitate Hooli XYZ.
m_mueller
on Aug 11, 2015
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Pardon my ignorance, but what's hooly.xyz? Google's innovation lab?
ojbyrne
on Aug 11, 2015
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http://hooli.xyz
is a company on the HBO show "Silicon Valley" - modeled after, and parodying Google.
mthoms
on Aug 11, 2015
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There's an Easter Egg on the site where one of the periods is a link to
http://www.hooli.xyz
. So yeah it was a nod to that for sure.
edit: The easter egg is on abc.xyz not the blogspot announcement.
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