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You would be surprised at the number of webmasters that don’t spend quite enough time thinking about their domain choice. This lack of thought leads to some pretty misinterpreted domains.
Either the web masters don’t think carefully enough about their domain names, or they purposely do this for a laugh, but there are sure some weird domains out there. Most of these are honest mistakes that lead to serious misinterpretations by readers that had no background with the site. Remember, always look for possible flaws with your domain BEFORE you register it to avoid this.
1 DicksOnWeb.com (Dickson Web)
This is an example of a purely honest mistake. Dickson Web is a website used for data loggers and chart recorders; however their domain name is misleading. As suspected, they have finally caught on to the words within the domain that give it its misleading message. They now only use this as a link to redirect to their new domain name.
2 ChoosesPain.com (Choose Spain)
Choose Spain. This is a hotel and a realty site for Spain. Hopefully your vacation isn’t as painful as the domain. They do however have some pretty nice land for sale and hotels for rent there.
3 ViagraFix.com (Via Grafix)
This has been around for a while. It was a rather innocent name until Viagra came out. They have “graphix” tutorial cd’s and a bunch of other items related to computer graphics. The company no longer uses this as their domain.
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TeacherStalk.com (Teachers Talk)
This is a community for teachers and students from across the US to talk about just about anything. It just turns out that by moving the “s” it turns into teacher stalk.
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WinterSexPress.com (Winter’s Express)
This is a small town’s local newspaper. They are called the “Winter Express”, but the domain can make it appear to be a different type of site. The paper is for Winters, California.
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NYCAnal.com (NY Canal)
This is a travel information website with links to all sorts of different activities to do on the canals of New York. This is a general website mistake. If you were to start a business on the Cook Islands, you would end up with .co.ck at the end of your domain. Co is the standard for commercial domains, and .ck is the TLD for the Cook Islands, so either way you will end up with the .co.ck after any innocent sounding domain name.
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WhorePresents.com (Who Represents)
This is actually a database for contacting the lawyer and/or publicists of some of the biggest actors and actresses out there. Whether or not this actually puts you in contact with the people it claims is beside the point, still somehow, the domain fits for at least some of the people on the database.
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ExpertSexChange.com (Experts Exchange)
This is a site where Experts can exchange their ideas. It is actually for programmers to get help with their current projects, and yet it makes it sound like it’s advertising the best “sex change” company out there. Since then, for some reason, they’ve changed their domain.
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TheRapistFinder.com (Therapist Finder)
This is actually a database for you to find a therapist. I thought this was the best of them all, as even without the caps you would probably read it as it sounds. This site is actually pretty big and could really help you find the best therapists in your area.
Hopefully this list will make you think twice before registering your next domain name. If you’ve seen another strange domain name other than the ones here, please feel free to share them with me in the comments.
Google Search Results Page
Posted on: April 1, 2008
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Search Results Page
Your search results page is packed with information. Here’s a quick guide to decoding it.
Each underlined item is a search result that the Google search engine found for your search terms. The first item is the most relevant match we found, the second is the next-most relevant, and so on down the list. Clicking any underlined item will take you to the related web page.
Here’s a sample search results page, along with brief explanations of the various types of information about your results that you can find there.
| A. | Google navigation bar Click the link for the Google service you want to use. You can search the web, browse for images, news, maps and videos, and navigate to Gmail and other Google products. |
| B. | Search field To do a search on Google, just type in a few descriptive search terms, then hit “Enter” or click the “Search” button. |
| C. | Search button Click this button to submit a search query. You can also submit your query by hitting the ‘Enter’ key. |
| D. | Advanced search This links to a page on which you can do more precise searches. [ Learn more about Advanced Search ] |
| E. | Preferences This links to a page that lets you set your personal search preferences, including your language, the number of results you’d like to see per page, and whether you want your search results screened by our SafeSearch filter to avoid seeing adult material. |
| F. | Search statistics This line describes your search and indicates the total number of results, as well as how long the search took to complete. |
| G. | Top contextual navigation links These dynamic links suggest content types that are most relevant to your search term. You can click any of these links in order to see more results of a particular content type. |
| H. | Integrated results Google’s search technology searches across all types of content and ranks the results that are most relevant to your search. Your results may be from multiple content types, including images, news, books, maps and videos. |
| I. | Page title The first line of any search result item is the title of the web page that we found. If you see a URL instead of a title, then either the page has no title or we haven’t yet indexed that page’s full content, but its place in our index still tells us that it’s a good match for your query. |
| J. | Text below the title This is an excerpt from the results page with your query terms bolded. If we expanded the range of your search using stemming technology, the variations of your search terms that we searched for will also be bolded. |
| K. | URL of result This is the web address of the returned result. |
| L. | Size This number is the size of the text portion of the web page, and gives you some idea of how quickly it might display. You won’t see a size figure for sites that we haven’t yet indexed. |
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Cached |
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Similar pages |
| O. | Indented result When Google finds multiple results from the same website, the most relevant result is listed first, with other relevant pages from that site indented below it. |
| P. | More results If we find more than two results from the same site, the remaining results can be accessed by clicking on the “More results from…” link. |
| Q. | Plus Box results Clicking the “plus box” icon reveals additional info about your search result. You’ll see this feature for pages related to publicly traded U.S. stocks, local businesses, and Google and YouTube videos. |
| R. | Related search terms Sometimes the best search terms for what you’re looking for are related to the ones you actually entered. Click these related search terms to see alternate search results. |
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