Comments on: Can you limit my Keyword Search to just ‘800’ numbers? http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/keyword/can-you-limit-my-keyword-search-to-800-numbers.html The Internet's Toll Free Search Engine for Vanity 1-800 Numbers Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:58:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: TollFreeNumbers.com » » Can we limit the search results to 7 digits? http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/keyword/can-you-limit-my-keyword-search-to-800-numbers.html#comment-406 TollFreeNumbers.com » » Can we limit the search results to 7 digits? Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:33:45 +0000 http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/keyword/can-you-limit-my-keyword-search-to-800-numbers.html#comment-406 [...] an even better answer to a similar question: Can we limit the results (on the Keyword Lookp) to just ‘800′? (2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)  Loading [...]<ul></ul> […] an even better answer to a similar question: Can we limit the results (on the Keyword Lookp) to just ‘800′? (2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)  Loading […]
    ]]>         By: Manny Camacho http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/keyword/can-you-limit-my-keyword-search-to-800-numbers.html#comment-638 Manny Camacho Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:24:28 +0000 http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/keyword/can-you-limit-my-keyword-search-to-800-numbers.html#comment-638 Looking at your list, it contains specific aircraft manufacturers names (i.e., Cessna, Piper, Yak, Mig, etc) that, since we do not limit ourselves to any one make, we could not use as any part of the vanity number/name. There is also no need for any specific type of aircraft model (i.e., AN124, AN225 - these are Russian airplanes (Antonov) anyway) Apparently, "flying" can be associated with "fly fishing". That is not our category, so I am not interested in (i.e., Reel, rods, line, casting, tackle, yacht, etc.) I despise Viagra junk emails! And, I am surprised to see vanity numbers with the word "Viagra" within the report! How did they get in there?? There are certain words that I would not choose due to their similarity in sound - possibly causing confusion and/or repetition or clarification on our part each time we were to verbally give out the phone number (i.e., Aero-Arrow, Flyer-Flier, etc). I wish there was a way (such as on EBay) where one could delete certain words that you definitely DON'T want (i.e., naval, fishing, tying, filters, soviet, fares, conditioning, rv, boxes, army, navy, STOL, WWI, WWII, music, kit, etc.). Just trying to be helpful - until a great one comes along. The above would probably delete more than half of the report and make it easier to read. But, I realize this might not be possible. Thank you for your efforts, Manny Camacho. P.S. You had a great one that I passed along to a friend who flies "war birds" (800-War-Birds). I gave him your website address. He didn't need it, but knew someone who might. Manny Camacho Jr.<ul></ul> Looking at your list, it contains specific aircraft manufacturers names (i.e., Cessna, Piper, Yak, Mig, etc) that, since we do not limit ourselves to any one make, we could not use as any part of the vanity number/name.

    There is also no need for any specific type of aircraft model (i.e., AN124, AN225 - these are Russian airplanes (Antonov) anyway)

    Apparently, “flying” can be associated with “fly fishing”. That is not our category, so I am not interested in (i.e., Reel, rods, line, casting, tackle, yacht, etc.)

    I despise Viagra junk emails! And, I am surprised to see vanity numbers with the word “Viagra” within the report! How did they get in there??

    There are certain words that I would not choose due to their similarity in sound - possibly causing confusion and/or repetition or clarification on our part each time we were to verbally give out the phone number (i.e., Aero-Arrow, Flyer-Flier, etc).

    I wish there was a way (such as on EBay) where one could delete certain words that you definitely DON’T want (i.e., naval, fishing, tying, filters, soviet, fares, conditioning, rv, boxes, army, navy, STOL, WWI, WWII, music, kit, etc.).

    Just trying to be helpful - until a great one comes along. The above would probably delete more than half of the report and make it easier to read. But, I realize this might not be possible.

    Thank you for your efforts, Manny Camacho.

    P.S. You had a great one that I passed along to a friend who flies “war birds” (800-War-Birds). I gave him your website address. He didn’t need it, but knew someone who might.

    Manny Camacho Jr.

      ]]>             By: Bill Quimby http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/keyword/can-you-limit-my-keyword-search-to-800-numbers.html#comment-639 Bill Quimby Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:34:03 +0000 http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/keyword/can-you-limit-my-keyword-search-to-800-numbers.html#comment-639 The keyword Lookup looks for phrases that contain your keyword. This is important because if someone put in LIMO as their keyword it will find things like LIMO DRIVER, even though driver isn’t usually a word we would combine with most other keywords. The bottom section for more creative options will take it one step further and look for related terms that don’t contain the term within the first 7 digits. That will find something like PROM NIGHT or MY STRETCH for the word LIMO. It is even further from your keyword and is like throwing mud up against the wall in some ways. But that creativity can be very valuable, especially when you’re in the brainstorming stage. It would certainly be nice if the computer could just tell what you thought was appropriate or good for your project but that’s the epitome of easier to say than do. Discerning user intent is the holy grail of search, but in reality since there’s no way for the computer to do that perfectly, it is better to err on the side of providing too many options than to eliminate the wrong ones that you want. Some keywords are too broad and don’t have enough focus. I think the Viagra comes from the term BUY. I agree that isn’t a great combination. But without looking for phrases, BUY would probably be a pretty difficult term to use at all. It has a LOT of phrases but there aren't very many standard prefixes or suffixes that would really work for a word like that. We don’t have “-words� like search engines do. It’s already so complicated to add that won’t be very easy and most users wouldn't ultimately use it. I admit that our interface for the terms is extremely simplistic. There’s no login system to edit your terms. :-( Maybe we can add that sometime in the future. But we have sooo many things to add, that it’s hard to keep track of them all. They seem to pop up a lot faster than we get to them, but that’s what makes this so fun for us. .Bill Quimby.<ul></ul> The keyword Lookup looks for phrases that contain your keyword. This is important because if someone put in LIMO as their keyword it will find things like LIMO DRIVER, even though driver isn’t usually a word we would combine with most other keywords. The bottom section for more creative options will take it one step further and look for related terms that don’t contain the term within the first 7 digits. That will find something like PROM NIGHT or MY STRETCH for the word LIMO. It is even further from your keyword and is like throwing mud up against the wall in some ways. But that creativity can be very valuable, especially when you’re in the brainstorming stage.

      It would certainly be nice if the computer could just tell what you thought was appropriate or good for your project but that’s the epitome of easier to say than do. Discerning user intent is the holy grail of search, but in reality since there’s no way for the computer to do that perfectly, it is better to err on the side of providing too many options than to eliminate the wrong ones that you want.

      Some keywords are too broad and don’t have enough focus. I think the Viagra comes from the term BUY. I agree that isn’t a great combination. But without looking for phrases, BUY would probably be a pretty difficult term to use at all. It has a LOT of phrases but there aren’t very many standard prefixes or suffixes that would really work for a word like that.

      We don’t have “-wordsâ€? like search engines do. It’s already so complicated to add that won’t be very easy and most users wouldn’t ultimately use it. I admit that our interface for the terms is extremely simplistic. There’s no login system to edit your terms. :-( Maybe we can add that sometime in the future. But we have sooo many things to add, that it’s hard to keep track of them all. They seem to pop up a lot faster than we get to them, but that’s what makes this so fun for us.

      .Bill Quimby.

        ]]>                 By: Bill Quimby http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/keyword/can-you-limit-my-keyword-search-to-800-numbers.html#comment-1034 Bill Quimby Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:25:29 +0000 http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/keyword/can-you-limit-my-keyword-search-to-800-numbers.html#comment-1034 I saw a commercial for 877-GOODYEAR today. I researched it a little and actually found that Goodyear sued Corporate Image Marketing, Vanity800.com and Tony Kinnear over trademark infringement. I just saw commercials with it on TV so it looks like they got that one. I'll review and go over this in another post with anything interesting. But the point here was that Goodyear didn't just say if I can't get the "800" I don't care. That would be stupid for them to say, so although it's OK to want the 877 it's dumb to preclude everything else. Bill Quimby<ul></ul> I saw a commercial for 877-GOODYEAR today. I researched it a little and actually found that Goodyear sued Corporate Image Marketing, Vanity800.com and Tony Kinnear over trademark infringement. I just saw commercials with it on TV so it looks like they got that one. I’ll review and go over this in another post with anything interesting. But the point here was that Goodyear didn’t just say if I can’t get the “800″ I don’t care. That would be stupid for them to say, so although it’s OK to want the 877 it’s dumb to preclude everything else.

        Bill Quimby

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