Clowning with names
Whats a wannadont Maybe its related to a wannabe In any event Wanadoo the name of the European Internet service provider is Exhibit A in the category of dorky names for technology companies
Perhaps you are so used to the name that it no longer sounds silly But it still rings a discordant note in my ear The bigger problem though is that Wanadoo owned by the aptly named France Tlcom is not alone Why do companies especially those doing business on the Internet come up with the clunkiest most moronic proper nouns in the English language...
MSN launches Irish site
The company said that the new portal had been launched to meet the needs of both Irish web users and advertisers who until now were forced to interact with couk or com Globally Microsoft has some 40 localised portals including about 20 in Europe
Six key partners Esat Golden Pages and Eirbourne Text Promotions will provide content and other services for the new site It is expected that additional partners will be added in the future executives said adding that Red Sky is handling eadvertising for the new ie site...
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launches Irish site Friday October 01 by Matthew Clark
Microsoft will on Monday launch an Irish version of its Internet portal
which comes complete with Irish content and new advertisers
The company said that the new portal had been launched to meet the needs of both
Irish web users and advertisers who until now were forced to interact with
couk or com Globally Microsoft has some 40 localised portals
including about 20 in Europe...
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Vivisimo launched a search engine yesterday that uses clustering technology to organize results
Vivisimo Pittsburgh a 4yearold company founded by Carnegie Mellon computer scientists sells search technology to corporations Clustycom is the consumer search engine the company built
Unlike Google which uses a pageranking formula to sort Web pages Clusty groups results into themes for users to cut through the reams of Web pages typically returned by search engines It draws its search
index from various sources including LookSmarts Wisenut BizRate and Lycos...