It probably is a coincidence. But as-per my other comment, an unfortunate one.

Take all the hundreds of thousands of words in popular languages. And all the human names. And all possible new made up words and made up names. And land on one that's a project with a FAQ[1] saying "Gemini might be of interest to you if you: Value your privacy and are opposed to the web's ubiquitous tracking of users" - wait, that's Google's main source of income isn't it?

[1] https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq.gmi

Wasn't Gemini part of Greek Mythology way, way before? Aren't you losing maybe thousands of years here?

> "Gemini as a web protocol isn't even on the top 5 list of things that come up when you think about Gemini prior to this announcement."

And now it never will be :)

It's not just the confusion part, it's the behaviour part; Google is a web browser near-monopolist, AI is a big hyped thing with a lot of media noise, and Google has plonked their AI right on top of a small competitor, and done it while crowing about how moral they are.

It's more like Uber releasing an AI called Taxi so all web searches for taxis show you Uber results and you saying "taxi is a word used by lots of companies".