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Sounds like the author had some human-centric reasons for changing the name of the business. It's worth noting that Google can be taught to like invented names
by danilocampos 16y ago
Sounds like the author had some human-centric reasons for changing the name of the business. It's worth noting that Google can be taught to like invented names in a pretty short amount of time, though.
Three of my four iPhone projects shipped with invented words for names (Oddage, Tallymander, Globejot). Even after the sites were live and indexed, Google would do its "did you mean..." or worse, showing results for the word it thought I meant by default.
So, searching for Tallymander, for example, would give you "Showing results for Sallymander" for the first two results.
With any amount of press or other web conversation that generates inbound links, though, this problem ends up taking care of itself. About a week after launch, Google recognized each word as legitimate and I enjoyed top ranking.
- MartinCron 16y agoThanks for sharing this experience, the Cadio->Cardio thing was scaring the heck out of me.
- jaf656s 16y agoThis is determined probabilistically, so as you get more coverage (and links) the term occurs more often on the web, thus making it less likely that it was a misspelling. I imagine link text might be given more weight over regular text, but I am not sure. Anyone know for sure?
- richardhenry 16y agoI found this pretty quickly with Cursebird.
- danilocampos 16y agoDid you mean custard? Showing results for custard. Click here to see results for cursebird. Ah, Google.
- richardhenry 16y agoI assume you're joking? If not, let me know. Here's what myself and most people see: http://cl.ly/2SzP http://cl.ly/2SzP Interestingly, if you search for "cussbird" it will correct you to "cursebird": http://cl.ly/2TPX http://cl.ly/2TPX I'm not logged in, and people in the U.S. see the same results.