Remember

I wander if it is just double letters. Google, Yahoo, Twitter. Or the oo sound. YouTube. This would not explain Wikipedia or Bing. Perhaps it is some sort of rime or poetic attachment. Some say the concept of poetry is to remember. A stitch in time will save nine. That sort of thing. Maybe it is the act of remembering. Maybe none of the other stuff matters as long as we remember the association with actions.

Google has become a verb. That is a heck of a way to remember something, when it has become a word or an action.

How can I use this to my advantage? The first thing that comes to mind is camping on a URL until someone comes along and wants it. That has been done so much that there are rules against it now.

It is not good enough to have a memorable or even appropriate URL. It has to catch. Something has to draw people to it over and over.

Maybe the days of a good URL are over. I mean, who goes directly to a URL any more? People hit up their friends for a link and when that fails, they try searching on Twitter for what their friends and complete strangers are saying about the subject. Then they hit YouTube to find out if there are any instructional videos. After four hours of watching puppies and car crashes on YouTube, they have forgotten what they were looking for and wind up on Amazon in a vain attempt to satisfy their needs through consumerism.

I'm not going to say where they end up if that does not satisfy their needs.