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Yes, both of those were in my mind if we elect to change. Albany is unfortunate due to the presence of Albany NY. It is the people who are looking for us and who know of us and the name but have not seen the site written down that we are going for. In fact many such will use the Papera

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Hi Severin, I just looked at your site. Ideas for distinctive domain names could include newartsinc or newartsalbany. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines -

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Hi Severin, For what its worth, for me the search results were: * Google Australia (google.com.au) * Search term: newarts (no quotes) -Search the web: www.newarts.org.au was # 3 (of about 3,170,000 for newarts) Note that #1 was al

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Severin, Google doesn't treat NewArts and New Arts as the same. Compound words are discrete - for example, search on "sand paper" and Google asks if you mean sandpaper - "sandpaper" and "sand paper" are different. Google also differentiates between singular and plural forms of a word. When figur

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Hi Severin, Nothing is guaranteed with Google. That's part of its design. Making assumptions about Google is a trap that has caused grief for many people. I believe Google avoids being predictable, because predictability can be used by bad people as well as good people. Google is by-and-large a

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The responses I have received are helpful, but no one has commented why a request for "newarts" is treated the same as "new arts" it appears. Severin Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas

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Thanks Glenn, we are building on that anyway as a matter of course. Severin On 10/01/2010, at 12:42 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: Severin, Google.com and Google.com.au deliver different results - using google.com.au your site is coming up on page 1 for a search on newarts. If you want to improv

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Severin, Google.com and Google.com.au deliver different results - using google.com.au your site is coming up on page 1 for a search on newarts. If you want to improve your rankings, find ways to get good links to your website from other websites - the more authoritative the website the link come

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I checked Google (australia) and Newarts.org was right at the top of page one. I do not know if that's the one discussed here because there was little detail of contact or location except for an email address. Bill On 10/01/2010, at 11:20 AM, Severin Crisp wrote: I administer a we

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I administer a website for an organisation NewArts(Inc) of which I am secretary. The previous version had a different name and we agreed to change the domain name to newarts.org.au for a number of very good. While this is not a seriously distinctive name, our belief that "newarts" rathe