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Web Filters Cause Name Change for a Magazine
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoFirst reported here via the National Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051497 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051497 Some discussion there, although not a lot.
- gkoberger 17y agoIt seems to me that the new name might be a bit too generic, and will cause Internet-related issues of its own. "Canada's history" has 11 million hits on Google already- it won't be easy to make their magazine findable. Admittedly, though, they didn't have a top spot on Google for the only-slightly-less-generic name "The Beaver," either, so maybe it's not a huge deal.
- grannyg00se 17y agoWhen I google "the beaver", they do indeed show up as the top spot.
- eru 17y agoBut they can get first spot for "The magazine formerly known as the beaver".
- ilamont 17y agoPaidContent.org used to run some sort of macro on their email newsletters which added special characters to all suspect words in order to defeat recipients' spam filters ("free" --> "fr^ee", etc.). They stopped doing it last year, though.