The Google Effect And Domain Name Speculation

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The Google Effect And Domain Name Speculation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday January 17, 2002 @02:50AM from the mix-it-all-up-and-throw-it-together dept.

A reader writes "Google brought us the age of high quality searches, and with that may come the end of domain-name speculation. Good thing we paid for all those laws to punish cyber-squatters. Read the article and learn more."

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Re:The reason why he's wrong? Stupid Marketing Dep by wo1verin3 · 2002-01-17 02:58 · Score: 1, Funny

I'm not so sure, I don't think I'd do a search on http://sweatywebmonkey.com

Marketing is everything.
Where this comes up short... by adlam.bor · 2002-01-17 03:03 · Score: 4, Funny

It'll be hard to have TV ad campaigns for a website that say: "Okay, first, go to google, and then type in the following keywords, and then click the fifth entry that comes up!"
If nothing else, you'd have to update the silly ad every month depending on how google indexed you this time around...
Re:I think Google is getting a little too much cre by Mercaptan · 2002-01-17 03:06 · Score: 2, Funny

Clearly the author is viewing things through Google Goggles.

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Who cares what the Domain is called! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-17 03:38 · Score: 1, Funny

[Qoute]If you and I can quickly locate the Web address we're seeking, who cares what it's called?[/Qoute]

How about this, then?

http://a5d6d376-0b60-11d6-b8a0-00b0d0119ed6.com

or

http://b54a30b4-0b60-11d6-b8a0-00b0d0119ed6.org

Makes total sense to me. Ah, the beauty of quoting
things out of context ;-)

- Penguin Kicka
Re:It's not all web, you know by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-17 03:48 · Score: 2, Funny

I foresee "swipe-able" business cards that read your info right into the contact list, including your not-human-readable email address.

I can just see it now: Boy meets girl. Boy hits on girl. Girl puts up with boy. Boy asks girl for her phone number. Girl swipes her card. Boy asks why the card has the picture of a pizza on it. Girl thinks "good thing he didn't see 'Bobs Pizza' written on the back."
Dick's Sporting Goods is not Dicks.com by jason99si · 2002-01-17 04:20 · Score: 5, Funny

The article's author has a good point. I don't try to guess a companies domain anymore either... ever since that embarrassing moment in the lab at school when I found out that Dick's Sporting Goods web site is not Dicks.com.

..duh.
Yeah, lets use Google instead: by mini+me · 2002-01-17 04:26 · Score: 2, Funny

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Wrong! AV fails by g8oz · 2002-01-17 04:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Altavista easily failed the Via Technologies test the author used in google.

Sorry but AV is so 1998
Re:It's not all web, you know by Paradise+Pete · 2002-01-17 05:06 · Score: 1, Funny

I foresee "swipe-able" business cards

Swipeable? Hell, I can't give mine away.
Re:It's not all web, you know by Tackhead · 2002-01-17 06:07 · Score: 2, Funny

> You forgot the epic conclusion! Boy tries to call girl. Boy is disapointed. Boy orders a pizza.
(Hey, a pizza doesn't complain when you get tired of eating it and order another one ;-)