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by rmacduf 2913 days ago
Hey, I'm one of the co-founders of Gurn... Yeah the name is definitely a talking point!

In the UK, you're spot om, it does have the connotation of pulling an ugly face - the exact same type of face all our colleagues used to pull when they couldn't find the web resources they needed! Outside of the UK people tend to see it just as a short and memorable 4-letter word :-)

Using Gurn as the name is also a pun on how the tool works - you type 'go' in the address bar, followed by a keyword. The Keyword acts like an old school URN... So you 'go urn'... hence Gurn :-)

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Nice woody sort of word, "gurn".