UncategorizedFebruary 15, 2006 9:52 am
Note: This post may not make sense to you if you’re not familiar with Singaporean or Malaysian street language.
Some of you may already have heard of Google’s new payment system that will compete with PayPal.
They’re calling it GBuy.
“Chao GBuy!!” (when things go wrong)
“Orh, so you use GBuy to make money har?”
“You want the money isit? I’ll shove it up your GBuy!”
Someone stop me.
GBuy
Tinker Tailor made me realize that the name of the new Google payment system - GBuy - would be inappropriate and difficult to pronounce, particularly in Singapore, Malaysia, or among Hokkien-speaking people.
Trackback by www.indrani.net — February 15, 2006 @ 2:43 pm
That is so wrong. If I’d known about this earlier I’d have brought this up at the Google talk in NUS today.
Comment by Joel Pan — February 15, 2006 @ 11:34 pm
Google’s PayPal-killer “GBuy” raises my eyebrow…
One of the other wonders of the world besides Niagara Falls. I always get a kick when cops pull me over…
Instead of a techincal review of another Web 2.0 service, here’s a socio-cultural review about Google’s latest venture… …
Trackback by theory.isthereason — February 16, 2006 @ 3:37 am
lol very mature, really.
Comment by the screwy skeptic — February 16, 2006 @ 6:23 am
GBuy!!
Comment by MY — February 16, 2006 @ 3:29 pm
ahah.. thats a good 1 really.
Comment by kachuaz — February 16, 2006 @ 3:53 pm
gbuy..LOL
Comment by kai — February 16, 2006 @ 7:03 pm
Eh. Paypal sounds like 皮包 (wallet,purse)
Comment by vera — February 16, 2006 @ 10:54 pm
You know, I think this will only add to its success. After all, ’sega’ means ‘wank’ in italian, but that didn’t stop the dreamcast from making a decent run of the roman markets.
Comment by jschnorng — February 17, 2006 @ 5:50 am
Walau this is the ultimate funny name man. I mean, why does it sound so much like our favorite national swear word? Of all the coincidence…
Comment by barffie — February 18, 2006 @ 10:20 pm