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

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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! :)

Cuil. Pay me.

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"?

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.

And in french it sounds like couilles ,which means bollocks.

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?

A little bit of both depending on how you read it. If you do not pronounce the "i" it definitely says rear end.

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).

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."

ahem http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doostang

http://www.gotahoe.com - Tahoe Vacations

http://cerberus.com - Cerberus

http:// - Pen Island (not posting domain)

http://www.ameriprise.com/ - Ameriprise

http://scottpetersendeli.com/index.html - Scott Petersen Sausage

A good list of other bad names:

http://independentsources.com/2006/07/12/worst-company-urls/

Funny. I never thought twice about expertsexchange.com until that.

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.

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.

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.

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

Grassy Knol?

qhoga.com?

MaiMed Medical

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

del.icio.us

I think 'Ewe' would be a bad one.

"I hate Ewe"

":( Why? I just wanted to know what your least favorite brand name is."

knolr

k.no.lr

There.com was/is pretty awful.

Smuckers

Dead Baby Ducks

Porcine

Goledge

Lonk .

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