[godelski]

I don't know if anyone has officially said so but there was a public statement about it being chosen as a reference to story telling (Celtic language). So could be for similar reasons or could be a reference. Not surprising considering how famous the story is and how famous Asimov is. But maybe someone else knows more definitively.

[andrewflnr]

Celtic? The name "Gemini" is much, much, much better known from Greek myth, if it occurs in Celtic culture at all...

[godelski]

Here, I'll rephrase thenoblesunfish for clarity, because you seem to have misread

  > Is this why the Google product (now just called Gemini) was called [Bard]?

"That" == "Bard".

They weren't referring to Gemini, which is why there's that whole thing in parentheses stating it's *now* called Gemini

From Wiki

  | The technology was developed under the codename "Atlas", with the name "Bard" in reference to the Celtic term for a storyteller and chosen to "reflect the creative nature of the algorithm underneath".

[andrewflnr]

Ah.

[strken]

Gemini was originally called Bard. That's what thenoblesunfish was asking about: the original name, not the new one.