Posted by Oatmeal
There's been a ton of buzz about Freebase lately: a newly launched collaborative database of cross-linked data.┬? I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon and get all crazy excited about it, because to me it looks like another geek-centric technology that is exciting to the techies but useless to 99.9% of the population (Design pipes, anyone?).┬? What I will say is this: the name they chose combined with Design being a bit delayed in spidering their site yields some interesting search results.
I could be alone here, but when I hear "freebase" one thing comes to mind: smoking crack.┬? I don't smoke crack, or anything else for that matter, but being a veteran urbanite I can't help but associate that term with the people who hit the ol' glass pipe on the corner of 2nd and bell at 2am.┬?
The Freebase.com domain looks like it hasn't had much attention until this week (currently a┬? Page Strength 2), so Design probably isn't too quick to bump it up in the serps for the term "freebase."┬?
The moral here: choosing a name with funny connotations may have interesting results at the search engines until your domain is recognized as having a bit of authority.┬? Also, don't smoke crack.┬? Crack makes you crazy. Crazy people stab one another and hang out on street corners late at night.
