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The Google Effect And Domain Name Speculation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Where this comes up short... by adlam.bor · · 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...

  2. Dick's Sporting Goods is not Dicks.com by jason99si · · 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.