HILARIOUS WEB ADDRESSES REVEALED IN NEW BOOK
London:
A new book has revealed some of the Internet's most inadvertently amusing web addresses.
The home page for celebrity agent database Who Represents, is addressed www.shorepresents.com, the book titled slurls: They Called Their Website What? reveals.
The volume complies over 150 of these naively addressed 'slurls', or slur URLs. It shows how spaces, rather the lack of it, can change the meaning of a word: Big Al's bowling alley in Vancouver named its site 'I love Big Al's which read with spaces removed says 'I love bi gals'.
The list includes names such as the Mole Station Nursery, a business in Australia selling gardening goods which took on the web name 'molestationnursery' before it was changed to 'molerivernursery'.
"In a world without spaces we mentally insert our own. And you might not stick yours where I stick mine." The telegraph quoted author Andy Geldman as saying. Another blooper, the home of Pen Island is named www.penisland.net, while Les Bocages, a British firm of tree surgeons named after the a French word for 'groves' bear the web moniker 'lesbocages'
Some spoofs are glaringly amusing -the Italian home page for the energy company Powergen has the address 'powergenitalia'. Or take BlackHatEbook.com, a guide to black hat SEO, "the technique of building a website using unfair, sneaky, sly and underhand tactics which often break search engine guidelines". Unintentionally, it could be read as BlackHateBook.com, a guide to being a racist, for the rarely seen literate racist.
For the firms affected, the errors are not always taken lightly. A spokesman for Choose Spain, a holiday company found at choosespain.com, told The Sunday Times: " It was too late to change it once we realised."
SOME FUNNY URLS
Experts Exchange - a site where programmers can exchange advice is listed at www.expertsexchange.com
Speed of Art - an art collective - can be reached at www.speedofart.com
Therapist Finder - a directory of therapy services - is at www.therapistfinder.com
If you're looking for computer software, there's always www.ipanywhere.com
Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church. Its website is www.cummingfirst.com
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