If you want to be famous, change your name: Starbucks used to be called Daily Coffee.

What were the names of Apple and Google before they became famous?

Get famous early: what were the names of Apple and Google before they became famous (bilingual) What Google, Apple and other world's biggest brands were called before they became household names

Do you Yahoo!? Would you if you had to Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web?

Do you like the name "Yahoo"? Would you still like it if it were called "Jerry's online Guide"?

While a bad name isn't enough to sink a brand on its own, several of the biggest shed some puzzling titles before becoming worldwide hits .

Although a bad brand name is not enough to make a brand go down, some top brands gave up some inexplicable names before they became popular brands around the world.

According to CNBC, electronics chain Best Buy was still called Sound of Music back in 1981 when the brand's Roseville, Minnesota, store was reduced to rubble by a tornado .

Best Buy (Best Buy), an electronics chain, was called "Sound of Music" in 1981, according to NBC Finance. At the time, its brand's Roswell retail store in Minnesota was razed to the ground by a tornado.

Afterwards, the store held a & # 39th Tornado Sale' in the parking lot advertising & # 39th best buys' on damaged electronics. Two years later, all the stores were rebranded as Best Buy .

Later, the store held a "post-tornado sale" in its parking lot to advertise the damaged electronics as the "best value for money". Two years later, all the stores were renamed Best Buy.

Google, the most popular search engine provider, earned that name two years after it was founded in 1986, under infinitely less catchy name BackRub .

Google, the most popular search engine provider, was founded in 1986 under the inconspicuous name "BackRub" and changed its name to "Google" two years later.

Hertz Rent-A-Car was originally Hertz Drive-Ur-Self System, but changed to The Hertz Corporation in 1954 after a major restructuring .

Hertz car Rental, formerly known as Hertz self-driving Systems, changed its name to Hertz car Rental after a major restructuring in 1954.

Many of the top brands simply went from wordy and boring to short and sweet with their name changes .

Many top brands have changed their names from tedious and boring to simple and friendly images.

Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation became IBM (International Business Machines), while Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web became Yahoo, an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

Computational list Records changed its name to IBM-- International Business machines, and Jerry's online Guide changed its name to Yahoo, an acronym for "another unofficial hierarchical database."

Quantum Computer Services turned into America Online back in 1991, then in 2006 shortened its name to AOL .

The Quantum computer Service changed its name to "AOL" in 1991 and shortened its name to "AOL" in 2006.

Starbucks Coffee, Tea and Spice, once called Il Giornale Coffee Company, was shortened to simply Starbucks, and Marafuku Company turned into Nintendo Playing Card Company before becoming Nintendo .

"Starbucks Coffee, Tea and spices" was originally called "Daily Coffee Company" and later reduced to a simple "Starbucks"; before using its current name, Nintendo was originally named Malafuku and later renamed Nintendo Poker Company.

One of the most profitable companies in history, Apple Inc, made only a subtle change from Apple Computers in 2007 as the company moved into other areas of consumer electronics .

Apple, one of the most profitable companies in history, changed its name only slightly as it entered other areas of consumer electronics-changing the name of Apple computer to Apple.

Once known as Research in Motion, the makers of the BlackBerry simply adopted the name of their flagship product in 2013 as they tried to catch up to competition in the midst of declining sales .

Once known as Mobile Research, the maker of BlackBerry phones, the company changed its name to BlackBerry in 2013, the name of one of the company's most famous flagship products, mainly because they want to compete with competitors in the face of declining sales.

Other companies, named after their original founders, eventually outgrew their more provincial-sounding names .

There are also some companies named after their founders, whose final development is no longer the same as their original local accent names.

Pete's Super Submarines became SUBWAY, Wards Company became Circuit City, Brad's Drink turned into Pepsi-Cola and Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo became Sony .

"Pitt's Super Submarine" has now become "Subway", "Ward Company" has changed its name to "Circuit City", "Brad Beverage Company" has changed its name to "Pepsi", and Tokyo Communications Industry has become "Sony".

Blue Ribbon Sports, which distributed Japanese sneakers Onitsuka Tiger in the US, eventually became Nike, named after the winged Greek goddess of victory .

The Blue Ribbon Sporting goods Company, which originally represented the Japanese Shizuka Tiger sneakers in the United States, eventually became what is now Nike, the name of the goddess of victory in ancient Greek mythology.

(source: daily Mail translator: Liang Qian SCNU Editor: Ma Wenying)