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I'll give you $50 for a worse brand name than Knol

9 points by wmeredith 18y ago

zacharye 18y ago
Cuil. Pay me.
- papa 18y ago
  I agree...this guy deserves the $50. Knol sucks, but at least - by merely looking at it - you can sorta pronounce it right. Good luck with anyone getting "cool" from "cuil". My first thought was "quill"?
  - Tichy 18y ago
    Unfortunately, I can remember cuil because of the "pronounce like cool, or kewl" tagline. It is just as annoying as Xobni (Inbox backwards...). I wish I could think of names like that that nobody forgets after first hearing them.
  - tyn 18y ago
    And in french it sounds like couilles ,which means bollocks.
    - jimbokun 18y ago
      I thought someone else said that it sounds like a French word for rear end. Do all the French words for naughty body parts sound the same, or what?
      - rokhayakebe 18y ago
        A little bit of both depending on how you read it. If you do not pronounce the "i" it definitely says rear end.
- parenthesis 18y ago
  The trouble with 'cuil' is that I keep thinking it says 'cull', which makes me think of the mass slaughtering of BSE-infected cattle. Although, more appropriately, another meaning of 'cull' is to "select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources" (from the dictionary OS X Dashboard gives you).
sps 18y ago
I think 'Ewe' would be a bad one. "I hate Ewe" ":( Why? I just wanted to know what your least favorite brand name is."
pivo 18y ago
Grassy Knol?
vaksel 18y ago
del.icio.us
josefresco 18y ago
Doesn't matter how horrible the name, as Google will be serving Knol pages in the top 10 for almost all revenue generating keywords soon. If you want to get on board by writing your Knol page be warned; getting your money from AdSense only is considered risky, AdSense plus hosting your content with Google is even riskier.
Tichy 18y ago
Goledge
andreyf 18y ago
I thought Knol as the singular form of "knowledge" was kind of clever... but I'm no marketer.
fallentimes 18y ago
http://www.gotahoe.com http://www.gotahoe.com - Tahoe Vacations http://cerberus.com http://cerberus.com - Cerberus http:// http:// - Pen Island (not posting domain) http://www.ameriprise.com/ http://www.ameriprise.com/ - Ameriprise http://scottpetersendeli.com/index.html http://scottpetersendeli.com/index.html - Scott Petersen Sausage
- jcl 18y ago
  A good list of other bad names: http://independentsources.com/2006/07/12/worst-company-urls/ http://independentsources.com/2006/07/12/worst-company-urls/
  - breck 18y ago
    Funny. I never thought twice about expertsexchange.com until that.
    - jcl 18y ago
      Same here. I guess it's because their preferred URL uses a hyphen between the words. I wonder how long it took them to realize that their website had an unfortunate name? It had to be after the name was in use, because "Expert Exchange" doesn't have the same problem.
Erwin 18y ago
They might not own knol.com, but they're #3 in the results while knol.com is about #15. "Google" didn't mean any more when they started out. Top searches for knol include blog about the coming of Knol, Wikipedia (!) article about Knol, Knol itself, a social network about Knol, another third-party site about Knol and then 6 Knol blog posts. Knol.com is next and then dozens of pages with blog article of coming of Knol and the supposed "Death Knol" for Wikipedia.
aristus 18y ago
Smuckers Dead Baby Ducks
t0pj 18y ago
http://grobli.com http://grobli.com (pronounced grow-blee) “The new millenium’s repository for all knol-edge.” ;) My hard work is shown below. 1) Pick random language: German. 2) Translating “great library” from English to German yields “große Bibliothek”. Now, let’s mix it up a bit to give it that Web 2.0 flair. 3) Use “grob” for great (ß looks like a “b”, doesn’t it?) and “li” for library. Bonus) Using namecheap, it looks like grobli.com is available! :)
gojomo 18y ago
There.com was/is pretty awful.
mattmcknight 18y ago
Porcine
vijayr 18y ago
qhoga.com?
chaostheory 18y ago
DOOSTANG.com "An invitation only site that ensures all contacts entering the system are trusted by at least one or more members in the network."
- drandall 18y ago
  ahem http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doostang http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doostang
blogimus 18y ago
MaiMed Medical http://www.maimed.de/en/ http://www.maimed.de/en/
patrickg-zill 18y ago
Lonk .
brk 18y ago
knolr
- unalone 18y ago
  k.no.lr

9 points by wmeredith 18y ago

zacharye 18y ago

Cuil. Pay me.

papa 18y ago
I agree...this guy deserves the $50. Knol sucks, but at least - by merely looking at it - you can sorta pronounce it right. Good luck with anyone getting "cool" from "cuil". My first thought was "quill"?
- Tichy 18y ago
  Unfortunately, I can remember cuil because of the "pronounce like cool, or kewl" tagline. It is just as annoying as Xobni (Inbox backwards...). I wish I could think of names like that that nobody forgets after first hearing them.
- tyn 18y ago
  And in french it sounds like couilles ,which means bollocks.
  - jimbokun 18y ago
    I thought someone else said that it sounds like a French word for rear end. Do all the French words for naughty body parts sound the same, or what?
    - rokhayakebe 18y ago
      A little bit of both depending on how you read it. If you do not pronounce the "i" it definitely says rear end.
parenthesis 18y ago
The trouble with 'cuil' is that I keep thinking it says 'cull', which makes me think of the mass slaughtering of BSE-infected cattle. Although, more appropriately, another meaning of 'cull' is to "select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources" (from the dictionary OS X Dashboard gives you).

sps 18y ago

I think 'Ewe' would be a bad one. "I hate Ewe" ":( Why? I just wanted to know what your least favorite brand name is."

pivo 18y ago

Grassy Knol?

vaksel 18y ago

del.icio.us

josefresco 18y ago

Doesn't matter how horrible the name, as Google will be serving Knol pages in the top 10 for almost all revenue generating keywords soon. If you want to get on board by writing your Knol page be warned; getting your money from AdSense only is considered risky, AdSense plus hosting your content with Google is even riskier.

Tichy 18y ago

Goledge

andreyf 18y ago

I thought Knol as the singular form of "knowledge" was kind of clever... but I'm no marketer.

fallentimes 18y ago

http://www.gotahoe.com http://www.gotahoe.com - Tahoe Vacations http://cerberus.com http://cerberus.com - Cerberus http:// http:// - Pen Island (not posting domain) http://www.ameriprise.com/ http://www.ameriprise.com/ - Ameriprise http://scottpetersendeli.com/index.html http://scottpetersendeli.com/index.html - Scott Petersen Sausage

jcl 18y ago
A good list of other bad names: http://independentsources.com/2006/07/12/worst-company-urls/ http://independentsources.com/2006/07/12/worst-company-urls/
- breck 18y ago
  Funny. I never thought twice about expertsexchange.com until that.
  - jcl 18y ago
    Same here. I guess it's because their preferred URL uses a hyphen between the words. I wonder how long it took them to realize that their website had an unfortunate name? It had to be after the name was in use, because "Expert Exchange" doesn't have the same problem.

Erwin 18y ago

They might not own knol.com, but they're #3 in the results while knol.com is about #15. "Google" didn't mean any more when they started out. Top searches for knol include blog about the coming of Knol, Wikipedia (!) article about Knol, Knol itself, a social network about Knol, another third-party site about Knol and then 6 Knol blog posts. Knol.com is next and then dozens of pages with blog article of coming of Knol and the supposed "Death Knol" for Wikipedia.

aristus 18y ago

Smuckers Dead Baby Ducks

t0pj 18y ago

http://grobli.com http://grobli.com (pronounced grow-blee) “The new millenium’s repository for all knol-edge.” ;) My hard work is shown below. 1) Pick random language: German. 2) Translating “great library” from English to German yields “große Bibliothek”. Now, let’s mix it up a bit to give it that Web 2.0 flair. 3) Use “grob” for great (ß looks like a “b”, doesn’t it?) and “li” for library. Bonus) Using namecheap, it looks like grobli.com is available! :)

gojomo 18y ago

There.com was/is pretty awful.

mattmcknight 18y ago

Porcine

vijayr 18y ago

qhoga.com?

chaostheory 18y ago

DOOSTANG.com "An invitation only site that ensures all contacts entering the system are trusted by at least one or more members in the network."

drandall 18y ago
ahem http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doostang http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doostang

blogimus 18y ago

MaiMed Medical http://www.maimed.de/en/ http://www.maimed.de/en/

patrickg-zill 18y ago

Lonk .

brk 18y ago

knolr

unalone 18y ago
k.no.lr