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May 21, 2021 by Bill Treloar Leave a Comment

Unfortunate Domain Name Decisions

On May 21, 2021 / domains/URLs / Leave a Comment

Some People Didn’t Think When Choosing their Domain Names

Oops!You may be amused by some of the domain names people have chosen. For some of them they discovered it too late and either went out of business or belatedly re-thought their decisions. But a surprising number of them are still alive under their amusing domains.

Here are some classics that aren’t there anymore.

  • Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views:
    http://www.expertsexchange.com
  • Need a therapist?
    http://www.therapistfinder.com
  • New to Milan and you need electricity? Why not sign up on-line with Power-Gen?
    http://www.powergenitalia.com
  • Looking for kids’ clothes? Try Children’s Wear
    http://www.childrenswear.com/
  • There’s also the online training company Via Grafix
    http://www.viagrafix.com/
  • A French arborist, Les Bocages
    lesbocages.com
  • Top MP3 songs – MP3s Hits
    mp3shits.com
  • TV personal advice celebrity Ben Dover
    bendover.com
  • Language teachers
    teacherstalking.org
  • A bedspread company in Los Angeles
    ladrape.com
Unfortunate domain name choices.

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And some others are still there.

  • Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous:
    http://www.whorepresents.com
  • Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island:
    http://www.penisland.net
  • New to Milan and you need electricity? Why not sign up on-line with Power-Gen?
    http://www.powergenitalia.com  [No longer live]
  • Need to know your computer’s IP address?? Try IP Anywhere
    http://www.ipanywhere.com/  now redirects to WhatIsMyIP.net
  • Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website Go Tahoe
    http://www.gotahoe.com/  [Now redirects to gotahoenorth.com]
  • Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church in Cumming, GA
    www.cummingfirst.com/  [I guess the ridicule got them to abandon this domain name]
  • Then, of course, there’s these brainless art designers, and their whacky website:
    http://www.speedofart.com/
  • IT Management from Regency Technologies now redirects to a new domain name.
    itscrap.com now redirects to a new domain name.
  • International Housing Ads had a website for housing in Las Vegas under the name of IHA Vegas. But now it redirects to a new domain.
    http://www.ihavegas.com/  [They seem to have abandoned this; it’s now for sale.]
  • A bait & tackle shop that may just have done this on purpose
    masterbaitonline.com
  • An emotional healing therapist wrote a book
    therapistinabox.com  [Now abandoned.]
  • Educational astronomy website, not a kinky site
    analemma.org
  • All about Winters, California
    wintersexpress.com
  • Scrap metal recycling
    americanscrapmetal.nyc
  • A toy consignment service
    kidsexchange.net  [They’ve wisely redirected this to a new domain name.]
  • Travel website, not necessarily for masochists
    choosespain.com  [This seems to be abandoned now.]
  • A cafe in Serbia
    bitefartcafe.rs

That’s probably more than any of us really need to know, but the moral of the story is — make sure your domain name can’t be read wrong.

December 13, 2007 by Bill Treloar 7 Comments

Google Pigeon Rank Explained

On December 13, 2007 / Google / 7 Comments

Quoting Google: “As a Google user, you’re familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google’s search technology is PigeonRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.

Google's humorous take on PigeonRank years before the Pigeon algorithm change was created.Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of our service on a daily basis, PigeonRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools.”

Google goes into some length explaining why this process works so well, including a list of FAQs. It’s well worth understanding this aspect of Google’s technology. [Update: the target of this page no longer exists at Google. This was Google’s 2007 April Fool’s joke.

Please Note: If you got here because you’re looking for information about Google’s Pigeon algorithm update in early 2015, the information you may be looking for is here.

And if you need help with your visibility online just reach out to us.

August 15, 2006 by Bill Treloar Leave a Comment

Google Says Googling Is Inappropriate

On August 15, 2006 / Google / Leave a Comment

It's okay to use Google, but not to google things.Concerned over the word “Google” becoming a noun in such common usage that they lose their trademark on it (like “escalator” which used to be a trademark of the Otis Elevator Company), Google is objecting to certain uses of their popular name.

An article in The Washington Post, was apparently taken to task by Google’s lawyers.

Appropriate: He ego-surfs on the Google search engine to see if he’s listed in the results.
Inappropriate: He googles himself.
Appropriate: I ran a Google search to check out that guy from the party.
Inappropriate: I googled that hottie.

“No googling for you!”

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[Update 2013] NBC has an interesting article here: No Googling, says Google — unless you really mean it.

[Update 2021] There’s a fun video about this from 2021: Why Google Doesn’t Want You to Say You “Googled Something”.

What do you think? Do you “google” things? Discuss in the comments below.

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