Kimba Kano

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Screenshot of Internet Explorer with Kimba Kano

Kimba Kano is a software program that integrates with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox to allow built-in searching of Wikipedia, Amazon.com, eBay, Phoebe and Google.

The program was first released November 2004 as Coeus after the Greek Titan of Knowledge, but changed names in February 2005 to Kimba Kano due an existing MIT trademark. The Kimba Kano project is apparently defunct as of December 1, 2005 as verified by Archive.org.

The software program was named after a nonsense phrase stemming from a controversy over the lyrics to David Bowie's song "Velvet Goldmine," which debuted on the album Space Oddity in 1975 and released on the Rykodisc version of Ziggy Stardust in 1990 as a bonus track. The controversy is over the exact words in the song, not helped by the fact that the lyrics sheet in the album is obviously incorrect. The line is interpreted as either "I'll be your kimba kano right for you again and again" or "I'll be your king volcano right for you again and again". Interestingly, the term 'Kimba Kano' translates in to Sinhala language as 'eating pussy' . The term 'Kimba' is an outdated taboo word for female genitalia.