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I'll give you $50 for a worse brand name than Knol

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Re: I'll give you $50 for a worse brand name than Knol

#12
They might not own knol.com, but they're #3 in the results while knol.com is about #15. "Google" didn't mean any more when they started out.

Top searches for knol include blog about the coming of Knol, Wikipedia (!) article about Knol, Knol itself, a social network about Knol, another third-party site about Knol and then 6 Knol blog posts. Knol.com is next and then dozens of pages with blog article of coming of Knol and the supposed "Death Knol" for Wikipedia.

Re: I'll give you $50 for a worse brand name than Knol

#14
http://grobli.com (pronounced grow-blee)

“The new millenium’s repository for all knol-edge.” ;)

My hard work is shown below.

1) Pick random language: German.

2) Translating “great library” from English to German yields “große Bibliothek”.

Now, let’s mix it up a bit to give it that Web 2.0 flair.

3) Use “grob” for great (ß looks like a “b”, doesn’t it?) and “li” for library.

Bonus) Using namecheap, it looks like grobli.com is available! :)

Re: I'll give you $50 for a worse brand name than Knol

#19
post #2

Cuil. Pay me.

The trouble with 'cuil' is that I keep thinking it says 'cull', which makes me think of the mass slaughtering of BSE-infected cattle.

Although, more appropriately, another meaning of 'cull' is to "select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources" (from the dictionary OS X Dashboard gives you).

Re: I'll give you $50 for a worse brand name than Knol

#20
post #5
post #2

Cuil. Pay me.

I agree...this guy deserves the $50. Knol sucks, but at least - by merely looking at it - you can sorta pronounce it right. Good luck with anyone getting "cool" from "cuil". My first thought was "quill"?

And in french it sounds like couilles ,which means bollocks.
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