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• Gina Fish

  

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  October 28, 2009 9:50 AM PDT

  Does Jurmai sound like germy??
  
  I'll ask my kids after school about made up words. If they get silly, I'm sure their words will have some potty humor with them. Ay yi yi!
• Kirk Gillock

  

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  October 28, 2009 9:56 AM PDT

  It's pronounced like "jur--my" and rhymes with "hi". :) If you think people will read it as "germy" then we can definitely scratch that name off the list. lol Some quick logo treatments.
• MING .

  

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  October 28, 2009 10:39 AM PDT

  hhmm hard to decide... Gizmick looks great to me  ;D
• KitKat G

  

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  October 28, 2009 11:40 AM PDT

  ;D Gizmick still looks and sounds best for me, at least, for now.   Don't know what will show up later.        I'm having a hard time pronouncing  Mongdo? Ginafish:  Got-to-sea:  I just pronounce it as........got-to-sea, as in search.  ;D    You've "got to sea" this new search engine, it's all for charity. hehehe    Gottosee.com was already taken. Edit:  I really like the logo samples, especially Gizmick!   :D
• Mary Ann Johnson

  

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  October 28, 2009 3:01 PM PDT

  I'm liking Gizmick -- I keep thinking of Gizmo the good gremlin -- I'll ask my kids tomorrow.  This could be a great word activity!  Thanks for asking!! :D
  
• KitKat G

  

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  March 22, 2010 3:22 PM PDT

  :D  I discovered today that www.godaddy.com has all the good .com names for sale.    Why don't we purchase a name from Go Daddy? 
• Leon Rheeders

  

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  March 23, 2010 3:09 AM PDT

  What about " Sanook " ?
• Kirk Gillock

  

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  March 23, 2010 4:15 AM PDT

  Sanook is a great one. Unfortunately it's taken by the largest website in Thailand. http://www.sanook.com
  
• Leon Rheeders

  

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  March 23, 2010 4:24 AM PDT

  oh no....how about mingkirk.com ?
• Gina Fish

  

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  March 23, 2010 4:33 AM PDT

  Hahaha! Great one leon!
  
  Hey, I'll sell ya Ginafish.com ;)
• KitKat G

  

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  March 23, 2010 5:35 AM PDT

  My favorite is still "Gizmick"!!    I tried "Aha.com this morning and it's already taken.  Gizmick is original, sounds good, and easy to remember.  :D
  
  @ Leon, Sanook is great, sorry it's already taken. 
• KitKat G

  

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  April 15, 2010 4:34 PM PDT

  I can't believe I missed this big news announcement.  

  Isara Web Crawler's Name Announced Posted on December 6th, 2009 Kirk Gillock No comments Nutch This weekend we came to realize that a new name is needed for our web crawler. It was previously just named "Isara" but, after doing a test search for "Isara", the results showed a lot of sites had our crawlers name, description, and e-mail address within their sites content. That is because some sites post HTTP Header information on their pages (Ex: "You are using Firefox browser?").  So when our crawler fetches those pages it also fetches our own bot's http header information being reflected back at us. Since we don?t want our database cluttered with A LOT of "Isara" keywords, for sites that have nothing to do with Isara, we must change the name of our crawlers agent.name so that it will not disrupt the results. Not that anyone will be searching for "Isara" within the Isara search page, but it's still nice to know the results are as accurate as possible. We have now officially changed the name of our webcrawler to GIZMICK! Gizmick is the name of a card game that one of our volunteers (Lara) taught us. The name kind of stuck with us so we thought it would be a fun name to call our web bot. Currently Gizmick is crawling one hundred popular forums and dozens of major news sites.

  I hope I'm not alone, anyone else miss this?   Here's the link http: //www.isara.org/search/   I'm very pleased with Isara's final decision.   :D  It's perfect!   Congratulations Isara!
• Gina Fish

  

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  April 18, 2010 5:17 AM PDT

  Whoops! Me too!
  
  Congratulations on settling on a name! Can't wait to use it!