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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

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http://www.gotahoe.com - Tahoe Vacations http://cerberus.com - Cerberus http:// - Pen Island (not posting domain) http://www.ameriprise.com/ - Ameriprise http://scottpetersendeli.com/index.html - Scott Petersen Sausage

A good list of other bad names:

http://independentsources.com/2006/07/12/worst-company-urls/

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

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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.

I thought someone else said that it sounds like a French word for rear end.

Do all the French words for naughty body parts sound the same, or what?

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

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

I thought someone else said that it sounds like a French word for rear end. Do all the French words for naughty body parts sound the same, or what?

A little bit of both depending on how you read it. If you do not pronounce the "i" it definitely says rear end.

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

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http://www.gotahoe.com - Tahoe Vacations http://cerberus.com - Cerberus http:// - Pen Island (not posting domain) http://www.ameriprise.com/ - Ameriprise http://scottpetersendeli.com/index.html - Scott Petersen Sausage

A good list of other bad names: http://independentsources.com/2006/07/12/worst-company-urls/

Funny. I never thought twice about expertsexchange.com until that.

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

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A good list of other bad names: http://independentsources.com/2006/07/12/worst-company-urls/

Funny. I never thought twice about expertsexchange.com until that.

Same here. I guess it's because their preferred URL uses a hyphen between the words.

I wonder how long it took them to realize that their website had an unfortunate name? It had to be after the name was in use, because "Expert Exchange" doesn't have the same problem.

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