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Its intentional too. Rand specifically choose the name SEOMoz to benefit from the brand confusion. From the horse's mouth (Mixergy interview): "Andrew: What d
by qeorge 13y ago
Its intentional too. Rand specifically choose the name SEOMoz to benefit from the brand confusion.
From the horse's mouth (Mixergy interview):
"Andrew: What does SEOmoz mean?
Rand: When we started up, we were looking for a name that was short. That had the word SEO in there so that people would know what the blog was about. And, I was a big fan of the Mozilla Foundation, with DMoz and ChefMoz. What was the other ones that they were doing at the time? There was, like, MapMoz, there was a bunch of them at the time that were coming out. That were based around this open source, weird transparent.
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So, that was SEOmoz, was taking SEO and combining it with the moz ethos. There you go."
Source: http://mixergy.com/seomoz-rand-fishkin-interview/ http://mixergy.com/seomoz-rand-fishkin-interview/
- lingben 13y agoNot only that but just recently them moved from SEOmoz which is arguably more different from Mozilla to MOZ which is just a shortened form of Mozilla
- masklinn 13y agoAnd has been used as such by mozilla for years: it's their official vendor prefix for CSS properties their official vendor prefix for non-standard javascript APIs (either draft standards or proprietary extensions, such as Firefox OS APIs): * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Mozilla_Extensions?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Web%2FCSS%2FCSS_Reference%2FMozilla_Extensions https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/M... * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MozActivity https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MozActivity * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/document.mozFullScreen https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/document.mo... * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.requestAnimationFrame?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Web%2FAPI%2Fwindow.mozRequestAnimationFrame https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.requ...