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

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Post by Sephr »

pushrax wrote: post #44
outsidetheparty wrote: post #12

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hitting mjt.xss.ht returns this: /* THIS SUBDOMAIN HAS BEEN BANNED FROM THE XSS HUNTER SERVICE. WE DO NOT ALLOW ABUSE OF OUR SERVICE, ALL SECURITY TESTING MUST BE AUTHORIZED. Please use our contact form if you believe this ban was a mistake: https://xsshunter.com/contact */

It previously returned an XSS test payload https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElAYZTcX0AEyFUY?format=jpg&name=...

The character set used looks to be specifically authorized by law[1] so this doesn't appear to be unauthorized testing.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24921261

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

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Post by abrowne »

danellis wrote: post #62
business007 wrote: post #20

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

The Go community had to do the same. Go. A language created by a company that makes a well known search engine.

But by staff who has worked on Plan 9, right?

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

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Post by tomcatfish »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #66
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #47

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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.

One of my favorite mobile games is Antiyoy, by Yiotro ( https://github.com/yiotro/Antiyoy ) who also created other games like Vodobanka, Achikaps, and Bleentoro. The creator mentioned that he picked the names because they were pronounceable, unique, memorable, and searchable. That misses out on meaningfulness and familiarity, but those are expensive - by dropping those requirements, you gain easy SEO, trademarks, dom…

Huh, I play these and I didn't know that's why that had these names, I assumed they were compound words in some language I didn't know. This is like a reverse "XKCD" naming convention.

Also relevant: "Change Your Name" http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

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

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Post by cpeterso »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #56
Scoundreller wrote: post #53

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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".

SiriusXM truncates a "The" prefix from artist names (so "The Cure" and "The Who" become "Cure" and "Who"). I always wondered how it would display The The. Would it be "The The" (special case), "The" (default removal of "The"), or an empty string "" (in the unlikely case the algorithm recursively removed "The" prefixes)? Eventually they played a The The song and the answer is "The The".

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

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Post by joubert »

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?

I found your company name in your profile - ":different"

Even if I google ":different" company or without the colon, top results for me is a parfumerie.

When I google different australia, you're the top result.

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

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Post by lazyasciiart »

dylan604 wrote: post #41
razster wrote: post #14

I registered Be for a small company a long time ago. I thought it was clever. They folded during the tech bubble.

clearly, it was older as now it would be encouraged to use Be

Also, too many vowels for a modern company name.
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