I think the sundial situation is different to Bill's situation. He deliberately introduced a spelling error in an attempt to create a unique keyword which would be all his own, and was confounded when the search engines 'helpfully' started to correct close matches. I'm just asking for pages to include certain words which aren't widely used by other communities - but I accept that any word we care to think of is sometimes going to be used in other contexts.
The example I mentioned yesterday - gnomonics - currently gives only a few hundred hits on Google including, curiously, a few porn sites. OK, so we can't make gnomonics completely our own, but its use might eventually lead to us being able to do a little more filtering when we search. This might be a hare-brained scheme, but it's not like it's a huge amount of effort to do - just a quick addition to our sundial pages next time we happen to be updating anything. Anyone else got views / experiences? Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Thayer" ...snipped... > Sorry to throw cold water on this, but I think you'll find this > doomed to failure, so I might as well help you not get your hopes up. > > When I first set up my own website (on Roman history) in 1997, I >... chose "LacusCurtius" with no space. My reason was along your lines: > people looking for me would be able to search for "LacusCurtius", >yet I would not be introducing what I call "search pollution", by >submerging searches for "Lacus Curtius". >The first thing that happened is that about half the sites reporting > me or linking to me added the space. Worse yet, after a few years, as > I got big, the search engines started 'correcting' searches for > "Lacus Curtius"! -
