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That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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

#71
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

It’s been 13 years since the Bobby Tables comic was drawn, has nobody actually tried it yet?

"; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD" https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

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

#72
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?

Back when I worked at a comparison shopping engine, I had a bit of a laugh when I saw that the indexing pipeline was generating error messages because the "clean" function returned empty for some products in the feed from Amazon, because they had names like "++++++".

It was usually musical albums that liked to have names that made it impossible for fans to find the music.

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

#73
post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s been 13 years since the Bobby Tables comic was drawn, has nobody actually tried it yet?

"; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD" https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

What I mean is, has nobody named their child after an SQL injection payload?

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

#74
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

It’s been 13 years since the Bobby Tables comic was drawn, has nobody actually tried it yet?

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

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

#75
post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD" https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

What I mean is, has nobody named their child after an SQL injection payload?

LOL!

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

#76
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

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

#77
post #8

Relevant context: https://twitter.com/zofrex/status/1319286955314614275 Apparently the name used to be \"> LTD

Will that even work without http:// or at least // in front of the domain name?

Tried it in chrome and sees it as a file name on the current domain.

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

#78
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?

:oscopy ?

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

#79
post #58

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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.

I always though the best name for a band with only one album would be 'Various Artists' with 'Greatest Hits' for the album name. They probably exist, I just don't think I can ask a search engine to find them.

I've seen a band called Special Guests.

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

#80
Relatedly, several years ago I scraped all companies on the old companies house webcheck site. There were two that interrupted my scraper: both contained '<' in the company name, and both seemed to take the webcheck service offline for a few seconds whenever I requested their pages. I can't say for sure - it might have been a temporary IP block I suppose - but it amused me nonetheless.
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