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Can someone explain the criteria for each of the tags given in the article? For instance, the "google" tag presumably means "if you google this term, the start
by nirvana 15y ago
Can someone explain the criteria for each of the tags given in the article? For instance, the "google" tag presumably means "if you google this term, the startup will likely be on the first page of results" (or maybe it means something else?) Is agreeability essentially the same thing (Eg: a unique word) or is it something else? What decides whether something is yellow or red in the "mis-spellings"?
We've got a really great name for our startup, and I'd like to evaluated it by other people's criteria (though, unfortunately, I'm not ready to mention it publicly, since we're still securing everything.) The "really great" aspect of it is a gut feeling, so, I could be wrong.
- jwallaceparker 15y agoTotally agree. Plus 1. Good point.
- irahul 15y agoI see that you have been around for some time, and you tend to post "totally agree" style comments. Just so you know, the general etiquette here is to upvote if you agree, and don't have anything else to add.
- irahul 15y ago> (or maybe it means something else?) I think it mostly has to do with loaded terms. If you company is called "cool.com", it's a loaded term and searching for something related to the company will yield a lot of false positives - e.g. cool cms.
- buddydvd 15y agoEVOC Evocativity Conveys at least a hint of what it’s naming BREV Brevity Shorter = better GREP Greppability Not a substring of common words GOOG Googlability Reasonably unique (and domain name available) PRON Pronounceability You can read it out loud when you see it SPEL Spellability You know how it’s spelled when you hear it VERB Verbability The name (or variant thereof) can be used as a verb Source: http://messymatters.com/2011/10/31/nominology/ http://messymatters.com/2011/10/31/nominology/
- bitemyapp 15y agoI feel stupid for bothering to come up with custom explanations. :\
- nirvana 15y agoOne of the key factors for us was trademark ability. Looking at the dropbox issue mentioned below supports this. Dropbox.com was registered in 1995 by someone who wasn't using it, but was acquired after (possibly as a result of) a lawsuit by the owners of the dropbox service... We fail on greppability, possibly googlablitly (17million results) and verb ability. But we win on the rest.
- BerislavLopac 15y agoJust added to HN (hackernewsed? hm, not the best verbability here ;) ) as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180861 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180861
- brc 15y agoYou can have a phonetically spelt word that still is close to a real word, but that gets auto-corrected when people try and use it. And that is bad. Because auto-correction is everywhere these days. For me this problem didn't appear until all the predictive spelling started appearing. Now it is a major problem.
- bitemyapp 15y agoEVOC -- is it evocative? Does it seem to hint at what the company does or is offering? Example: Textpayme, Counterexample: Amazon BREV -- Brevity. GREP -- Greppable. GOOG -- Can a layman Google it? Nota bene, not really about SEO, only tangentially related. PRON -- Can it be pronounced by a layman? SPEL -- How easy is it to spell? Can you infer the spelling from the pronunciation? VERB -- Can it be noun=>verb'd easily? Example: Google Humorous Counter-example: A9 All of this information was constructed using what was in the essay by comparing the example startup/domain names.