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I applaud an independent, new spider and search engine. Sadly, the name is pretty horrible. If you have to spell a domain out letter by letter when telling pe

I applaud an independent, new spider and search engine. Sadly, the name is pretty horrible. If you have to spell a domain out letter by letter when telling people in person, it’s not a good name. You also don’t appear to own common misspellings, like mogeek.com or moejeek.com or mojeak.com or at least they don’t redirect to the main website. Still, I hope it gains market share and usage and I hope in a few years you may have the funding necessary to rebrand it into a more user friendly name.

spiderfarmer 6y ago
I dislike the name too, but people had trouble spelling google as wel in the early days. I’m from The Netherlands where it’s not immediately obvious how to spell google. But Google had a very high market share here, almost instantly, while it took them a lot longer to beat Yahoo in the US.
- graderjs 6y ago
  Maybe in languages other than English it's a great name. It's not an anglophone world only.
ColinHayhurst 6y ago
Noted and thanks for the kind words. We are aware that pronounciation is tricky for some. From: https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/11/frequently-asked-questions-about-mojeek-objectives-company-and-team.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/11/frequently-asked-questions-a... How do you pronounce Mojeek? It is pronounced ‘moh-jeek’ with a hard ‘j’. In many countries this is an unnatural sound, and so we encourage the use of ‘moh-yeek’ to those folks who find our name near unpronounceable.
- SubiculumCode 6y ago
  The j is the hook to get geeks to flamewar about it, re gif jif. Brilliant.
- cy_hauser 6y ago
  Made my mind jump to "Listening Wind" from Remain in Light.
  - ColinHayhurst 6y ago
    Nice one. A favorite of mine; underrated track from a brilliant group.
sdevonoes 6y ago
As opposed to Google, Yahoo, Bing? Mojeek seems equally frustating when it comes to naming... but if they become popular, everybody will assimilate the name.

spiderfarmer 6y ago

I dislike the name too, but people had trouble spelling google as wel in the early days. I’m from The Netherlands where it’s not immediately obvious how to spell google. But Google had a very high market share here, almost instantly, while it took them a lot longer to beat Yahoo in the US.

graderjs 6y ago
Maybe in languages other than English it's a great name. It's not an anglophone world only.

ColinHayhurst 6y ago

Noted and thanks for the kind words. We are aware that pronounciation is tricky for some. From: https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/11/frequently-asked-questions-about-mojeek-objectives-company-and-team.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/11/frequently-asked-questions-a... How do you pronounce Mojeek? It is pronounced ‘moh-jeek’ with a hard ‘j’. In many countries this is an unnatural sound, and so we encourage the use of ‘moh-yeek’ to those folks who find our name near unpronounceable.

SubiculumCode 6y ago
The j is the hook to get geeks to flamewar about it, re gif jif. Brilliant.
cy_hauser 6y ago
Made my mind jump to "Listening Wind" from Remain in Light.
- ColinHayhurst 6y ago
  Nice one. A favorite of mine; underrated track from a brilliant group.

sdevonoes 6y ago

As opposed to Google, Yahoo, Bing? Mojeek seems equally frustating when it comes to naming... but if they become popular, everybody will assimilate the name.