So you will notice two things about the metasearch. The first is that Canada is not working. That is Canada’s fault. Second, we are starting a registration process. The first time you log onto the metasearch or the domain dossier you will be asked to supply an email address. It has to be a real
Allow Me to Describe the Frame of My Template
Some unknown number of you are reading the Blog using aggregators and may or may not have visited the Website itself. If not, you are missing out on nifty features we have used to decorate the from-the-factory Userland template.
Starting from the lower left, above the Creative Commons license, is a link to ccTLD reference information.
Brand As Navigator – WSJ Compares the Search Engines
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The Wall Street Journal’s Cranky Consumer column (Page D2 today, no link) compared search engines on various tasks – finding a specific product, finding a local business, etc. Recommendations – Froogle for finding the radio, AOL’s yellow page service for zip-code based searching of local businesses. Singled out for criticism – MSN, for being
LV Mask Ad Un-masked
Nike v. Kasky Links
Nike v. Kasky, the commercial free speech case, will be argued before the Supreme Court Wednesday. Here, via SCOTUS Blog, are links to everything you could possibly want to read about the case, including many many briefs.
Request to Google: Date of First Use on the Web Feature
Dave and Doc lobby Google to introduce a “date of first use on the Web” feature. I second that. That would be immediately useful in trademark work, where timing sometimes is everything. It wouldn’t be authoritative because of the unknown unknown “dark web” in the past (uncached web pages), but still it would be helpful.
Trademark Ramifications of Spoofing Continued
This will be interesting. Madonna has reportedly uploaded “decoy” files to peer-to-peer networks, in order to discourage piracy. Users who believe that they are downloading Madonna’s new album receive instead a recorded admonition from Madonna herself advising the user to respect the copyright in her work (not precisely in those words).
When the record
More on the Relationship Between Search Engines and Domain Names
Plasticbag.org rebutting arguments that search engines will reduce the importance of domain names. Many accurate observations, but, in my view, they better support the argument that search engines will not decrease the importance of brands.
The Wine Known As Two Buck Chuck
An attentive reader, inspired by the Spaldeen piece below on protectable rights in a public’s nickname for a product, forwards this pertinent story from winebusiness.com. A $1.99 wine by Bronco Wine named Charles Shaw is popularly known as TWO BUCK CHUCK. A third-party has now come out with its own TWO BUCK CHUCK wine. Now all
A Poem As Lovely As Targeted Advertising
How one man made art of Google AdWords.