On Tuesday, Alternative Search Engine Dabble, a video search engine that searches over 13 million videos, was the “Alt SE of the Day.”

Unsure of the meaning of the name Dabble, I ventured a few guesses:

How about the name “Dabble?” Is it:

1. To splash liquid gently and playfully?

2. To undertake something superficially or without serious intent?

3. To bob forward and under in shallow water so as to feed off the bottom?

4. A web application which allows users to create applications using a web browser?

Well, to settle the question, Dabble’s founder Mary Hodder wrote in and explained,

“When we were looking at Dabble as the name for the service, we interviewed a lot of users. Those users overwhelmingly said they liked Dabble because it sounded fun and like something they could do. Since these were not geeks but regular people, we asked why, and they pretty much all said that media was hard for them online, what with getting the right codec viewers to watch video, or uploading, or searching and browsing, or editing.

And Dabble just sounded fun and friendly. So it definitely means that to me, because once they said it, my own perception that it was fun was affirmed.”

We just feel really lucky to have it as our name: Dabble!

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