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Yeah yeah, we've all seen the video. And Atlantic Records Sucks.

I guess you missed out on "'Weird Al' Yankovic's" "Straight Outta Lynwood" album. Track three in the USA is "Canadian Idiot".

I think it is a type of humor, as Canadian Bacon is as well.

It's Frank's

Browsing is looking in a "place" where the browser already thinks the info might be - and expects to find different info, whether irrelevant or competing

Any time I ask for "X" and get "Y-the-x-competitor", I'm getting confusion.

The distinction between the trademark holder and the advertisers is already clear on google (much clearer than on either Yahoo! or MSN Search, by the way - or have you bothered to try either - and why isn't Vuitton suing Yahoo! or MSN?).

Vuitton's web site is the #1 result returned. They have nothing to bitch about. They're bitching because some lawyer has too much time on their hands, and is trying to justify his/her cushy corporate job.

If I buy a trademarked item, and offer it for sale, I am allowed to use the trademark in my ad. There is zero dilution of the trade mark in such cases - quite the contrary, it reinforces the trademark as referring to a specific product or service. The holder of the trademark cannot stop me from using it to identify the goods in question (hint: its called a "trade" mark for a reason - identifying specific products in the trade).

But the Google ads are very specific responses, returned precisely because the request was found to match the mark in the specific industry in which it is protected

Your argument would also prevent people from publishing anything dilatory about any company without their permission. Technology isn't the answer - the answer is the same as during Shakespeare's time - kill the lawyers.

http://www.yankovic.org/WeirdAl/h_Alapalooza/index .php
... or as Weird Al says

"Jurassic Park" (parody of "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris)
...
A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer
Well, I suppose that proves... they're really not all bad

this means you could sing parodies and such

Nothing will demonstrate my Slashdot nerd credentials better than confessing that I sang Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" on the Konami disc, but substituted the lyrics to the Weird Al Yankovic version, Jerry Springer. I found it easier to look away from the picture to keep from getting distracted by the real lyrics. Scored only 8100 points, whoopdedoo, but it was more of a stunt than an actual effort.

this means you could sing parodies and such

Nothing will demonstrate my Slashdot nerd credentials better than confessing that I sang Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" on the Konami disc, but substituted the lyrics to the Weird Al Yankovic version, Jerry Springer. I found it easier to look away from the picture to keep from getting distracted by the real lyrics. Scored only 8100 points, whoopdedoo, but it was more of a stunt than an actual effort.

When backpacking across North America, I would suggest that you take "Weird Al" Yankovic's advice and venture off the beaten path:

Like Elvis-a-Rama, the Tupperware Museum,
The Boll Weevil Monument, and Cranberry World,
The Shuffleboard Hall of Fame, Poodle Dog Rock,
And the Mecca of Albino Squirrels.

Oh, and don't forget to see the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota while you're at it. :)

From now on, for a website to be defined as "AOL friendly", they will need to be "mozilla friendly". If they are not (now they only need to be "designed for IExplorer"), AOL viewers will complaint about those "pesky webpages makers that cannot get a webpage done right" and will not use them (hint: think web-commerce, web-services....)

FWIW, the last time I reworked a website, there was no difference between IE and Mozilla that needed to be handled. Nutscrape 4 had major problems with CSS, but the beta Mozilla that was available at the time rendered the site nearly identically to IE.

(If an AOLer whines about my site, I'd be inclined to tell him to bugger off and get a real Internet connection. Then again, I'm not running a site that tries to make money.)