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Incesoft

Posted in Bad Names, Company Names, Foreign Word Names, Names on January 2nd, 2008 6 Comments »

The Name Inspector just learned about Incesoft, which claims on its website to be “the world’s leading provider of web robot technology”. Now, this is a Chinese company (which was selected for inclusion on the 2007 Red Herring 100 Asia list), so that’s a bit of an excuse, but…Incesoft? Is that the very best name […]

Village of the dots: The name Kijiji

Posted in Company Names, Foreign Word Names, Names, Orthography, Real Word Names on July 11th, 2007 4 Comments »

We’re really getting a chance to enjoy the graphic possibilities of the letters i and j lately. If you’re a blogger you can put a Lijit Wijit on your blog. And now there’s Kijiji. Actually, there has been Kijiji for a while now in other countries, but eBay has just launched a U.S. version of […]