For a couple hundred years, England was ruled by Danish or Viking kings. One of them was known as Harald Bluetooth (one surmises that he had a blue tooth). Why that should be a suitable name for a communication protocol--well, you are free to guess.
Widget was a term for a hypothetical or fictitious product of a manufacturing company. For example, a business-school test might have a question like, "If the XYZ Corporation manufactures widgets and they can produce 1000 widgets an hour…."
The name Google probably was suggested by the word googol, uttered by Milton Sirotta, the nephew of the mathematician Edward Kasner and used by Kasner to denote the quantity 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
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