Who Invented these TERMS

[~0]

Some of the newly invented phrases and terms that resulted from the Internet Revolution have become part of the UNIVERSAL Language:


Can anyone trace the earliest references, who
is credited with the invention of any of these popular phrases....

Search Engine Optimization
SEO
SPAM
Link Popularity
Website Development
net

[netbaldwin]

Don't know the answer that... but may I ask why you need to know? I'm assuming you're just curious.

Speaking of tracing search engine references -- has anybody else heard about this:

Now that Google's IPO is running, the company is on the verge of being sued by the family of a man who invented the word 'Googol' to describe a very big number.

Professor Edward Kasner came up with the word Googol, apparently at the suggestion of his 9-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta.

He used the term in the 1940s in his book, Mathematics and the Imagination. For the record a googol is 10 raised to the 100th power - or the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros.

[jawn_tech]

Google is also being sued by "Googles.com", who had the name first.

Google apparently wants to expand their trademark to clothing, including children's clothing, which is something Googles does.

Interesting to see where it goes, if it's still going on.

As for the terms, I can only guess. 'Net is an abreviation of internet, and abbreviations are hard to trace because a lot of people tend to start speaking that way at the same time. Link popularity is two common words, and may not be seen as a 'term' -- just something that over time we hear and say it used together. Who was the first soul to do it? Good luck.

I'd keep asking about the others though. My guess is SEO became used a lot in forums like this, where people don't want to type out words so we talk like, G (google), Y (yahoo), SERPs, SE, SEO, SER, algo, PR, etc etc etc...