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Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by gsnedders »

jjar wrote: post #39

Fun fact: It's currently law that you can have the and "" characters in your name. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/17/schedule/1/made

What's really fun is many companies' forms don't allow for companies to have any punctuation in their name.

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by Scoundreller »

hliyan wrote: post #18

On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?

Don’t go with !!!

You’ll never find them on YouTube or google unless you search for their informal name: chk chk chk

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by dqv »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #47
hliyan wrote: post #18

On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?

It really is amazing how big a difference this makes. I've started using Apple's Aperture software recently (I'm well aware it's been discontinued). I really like it, but my biggest frustration is that it's difficult to learn how to do new things, because "aperture" is a generic word in photography. I can't search for the name and get results about the software.

>I'm well aware it's been discontinued

Limiting the dates to indexes before 2016 might help (at least with google). You can usually train google to get you what you want after a few searches. This was initially a problem with the Elixir programming language, but it learned what I actually wanted it started letting me just type in the term elixir without specifying it was a programming language. On other computers not associated with that account, it does revert back to the not-so-useful results.

e.g.

    apple "aperture" color correction before:2016

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by RandallBrown »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #47
hliyan wrote: post #18

On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?

It really is amazing how big a difference this makes. I've started using Apple's Aperture software recently (I'm well aware it's been discontinued). I really like it, but my biggest frustration is that it's difficult to learn how to do new things, because "aperture" is a generic word in photography. I can't search for the name and get results about the software.

The band Chvrches chose to use the the Roman "u" to spell their name so they'd be easier to search.

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by LeoPanthera »

Scoundreller wrote: post #53
hliyan wrote: post #18

On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?

Don’t go with !!! You’ll never find them on YouTube or google unless you search for their informal name: chk chk chk

Google have a hardcoded exception for the band "the the".

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by yaboy »

Scoundreller wrote: post #53
hliyan wrote: post #18

On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?

Don’t go with !!! You’ll never find them on YouTube or google unless you search for their informal name: chk chk chk

However, they benefitted greatly in the early ‘00s. If you had them in your Apple Music library, iTunes always put them at the top of your alphabetical music library, keeping them top of mind, ! comes before A. There might have a similar iTunes Store benefit too.

Terrible Google SEO, great accidental Apple SEO.

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by dilly_bar »

ben_w wrote: post #33
jsty wrote: post #15

Nice to see Bobby Tables is all grown up. Relevant discussion on the Companies House Developer Forum: https://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/cross-site-scripting-xss-softw...

Bobby Tables would be https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c... Not to be confused with the equally inspired https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

Hilarious!

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by schwartzworld »

business007 wrote: post #20
hliyan wrote: post #18

On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?

better find a nickname, like D's community did, using dlang lol otherwise no one could find anything on language googling

how hard would it be to learn BASIC using Google? "Basic Programming" is going to have a lot of irrelevant results.
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