>> There was a story in Wired.com about "RealName", site is at
>>
>> http://company.realnames.com/
>>
>> >From the site:
>>
>> [...]
>
>
>well, the only ones that worked in my test were sites that already had
>familiar URLS:
> -- Pizza Hut
> -- Holiday Inn
isn't this the one that embarrassed itself during the initial rollout a
couple months ago? their promotional material said a kid could type in
'Bambi' and get to the appropriate part of the Disney website. when
people actually tried it, they got a porn site. quite the tempest in a
teapot, IIRC.
frankly, i see inherent scaling problems in the basic idea.. any system
powerful enough to identify a single document out of a few hundred million
is inherently complex. the law of minimum effort says that any system
capable of replacing the traditional URL will take just as much work on the
part of the user, and will be just as prone to fiddly, arbitrary
distinctions. information theory says that the fewer characters you use
per document, the more fiddly and arbitrary those distinctions will be.
mike stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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