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

http://www.voltagecreative.com/blog/2008/07/ill-give-you-50-for-a-worse-brand-name-than-knol/

by wmeredith • 18 years ago

9 29 18 years ago

zacharye• 18 years ago

Cuil. Pay me.

papa• 18 years 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"?

Tichy2• 18 years 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• 18 years ago

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

parenthesis• 18 years 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• 18 years 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• 18 years ago

Grassy Knol?

vaksel• 18 years ago

del.icio.us

josefresco• 18 years 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.

Tichy2• 18 years ago

Goledge

andreyf• 18 years ago

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

fallentimes• 18 years ago

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

jcl2• 18 years ago

A good list of other bad names:

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

breck• 18 years ago

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

Erwin• 18 years 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• 18 years ago

Smuckers

Dead Baby Ducks

t0pj• 18 years ago

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• 18 years ago

There.com was/is pretty awful.

mattmcknight• 18 years ago

Porcine

vijayr• 18 years ago

qhoga.com?

chaostheory• 18 years 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• 18 years ago

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

blogimus• 18 years ago

MaiMed Medical

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

patrickg-zill• 18 years ago

Lonk .

brk• 18 years ago

knolr

unalone• 18 years ago

k.no.lr

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

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