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That’s the name of a company. Yes THAT! WTF is wrong with people? There is a local company called Lion and Panda. Seriously.
What happen to strong, solid names like Acme, and Excelsior, Non Pareil, New Process, and Buffalo Springfield? The decline started with “Apple.”
What - are we all in kindergarten now? We all need LEGO names now?
End of rant.

Don't be disparaging towards Apple, please.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1548407788.jpg

In this day, and age, you need something named unique to get noticed, and have people want to click on your website. Old standby strong names like SEARS, ansd PENNEYS havent worked for years.

Way too many millenials that have extremely short attention spans would rather click on something that harkens back to a childhood game, rather than something that sounds like grandpa's tool store.

Toxic masculinity we will have none of that. I have heard there is some internet company selling German car parts called Pelican or Peach? What happened to names like Panzer or Tiger?

I wuz gonna open a gym....PussPussHere

Whaddaya think ;)?

Almost a license to print money- you’ll be rich, rich, I tell you!

Sink the shaft in the glory hole.

You must hate the way English pubs are named.

Pub names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pub_names
Perhaps we are returning to an altered or hybrid version of illiteracy?

Some great stories below, maybe there is a story behind some of our current names too (the story of Pelican Parts naming).

2012
So why are pubs called the Cat & Fiddle? A new book taps into the intriguing history of British pubs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090896/So-pubs-called-Cat--Fiddle-A-new-book-taps-intriguing-history-British-pubs.html


British Pub Signs - a short history
https://www.britainexpress.com/History/culture/pub-names.htm

Blame the internet age.

Any business needs a web presence and secure their tags as consistently as possible across the major social media platforms.

Since domain names and social tags are unique, no two entities can share the same, it’s mandatory to come up with names that are either not taken or are so unique that they won’t be confused with, are to similar to others.

And you have to be careful that where the syllable/word lines are in the name.

Pen Island

However, It wouldn't surprise me if the old men when Patrick was young complained about companies not simply proudly caring the name of their founders/principal members.

Sears & Roebuck
Hilton
Etc...

Trump keeps this older form of naming alive in that he puts his last name on everything. Oldschool class right there.

Boaty McBoatface.

Duckdudkgo is a pretty good search engine that does not harvest and sell the details of your search. I use it. I do not care what they call it.

^^^^^ What he said.

WD, relax, get back on your meds. The world is a different place. When there are a million businesses out there, you need something interesting and catchy to get attention and stick in folks' memory. Non Pareil, that's a type of Almond. Why is that a great name. New Process, also, just a moderate name in my opinion. Buffalo Springfield is another odd name, I've always thought. When I think ACME, I think Coyote and Road Runner, and then I think "what kind of odd generic name is that?"

Excelsior, that's not bad, but if the entire page in the thesaurus for Excelsior had been covered, then it would cease to mean anything.

thanks for the heads up. I just made it my default page!

I've been using it for a bit. I still use it, but for some things I end up going back to google.

Through 68 3/4 years of life on this planet I, sir, have earned the right to be a curmudgeon and I intend to inflict it on you young whippersnappers at will. I also talk to myself out loud and I've forgotten where the "off" position is on my turn signals.

The more we all use duckduckgo, the better it gets.

If privacy concerns with google is an issue with you, duckduckgo is the defacto standard.
Startpage.com is even more serious about privacy.

N.B. protonmail.com is a great alternative to gmail. gab.com is an alternative to twitter.

The market is speaking...

I've forgotten where the "off" position is on my turn signals.

Hey! I've been seeing you around a lot lately! You sure do have many vehicles!

Zactly. I use it work and home.

I'll give quackquack a try after a peek...

Is there a way to make it yer default search engine on an Android phone...sux if I have to google it :)

There's a brew pub in Cbus with a strong name. Hoof Hearted :D

Microsoft no likey Duckduckgo

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1548445022.jpg

Can I suggest using brave as your web browser? https://brave.com/

Or Vivaldi with DDG as the default seach engine...

Never even gave that a thought. Normally on a linux OS here.

I poked around a bit with both Brave and Vivaldi. I really liked a feature of Vivaldi where you could specify which search to use by using a nickname. IE, if you want to search google for something you type "something g". If you want to search bing for something you type "something b". And the "g" or "b" is configurable.

I didn't use Vivaldi long, but when I switched back to Firefox, I kept trying to use the nicknames.

This is the one I use... heard about it on the radio several years ago... same as duckduck, it shelters you from data mining... (see "How we protect you" at bottom of start page, read through it, then select "set as default' at the end):

https://www.startpage.com/

I was always wondering why Microsoft allows DDG to piggyback and recently saw the answer:

Why You Should Avoid DuckDuckGo (DDG) 2021 Edition, Now Microsoft-Hosted and With Extra Privacy Risks | Techrights
DDG’s third violation (2021): Microsoft hosts DDG’s service and
also supplies Bing search results for the same
transaction. This means Microsoft sees both sides of the
transaction and can link your IP address (i.e. identity) to
your search query that Bing processes.

I also use WaterFox, because FireFox requires Google script to display PP properly. Not sure why. Should be the same core program.
They are also owned by a data company:

https://avoidthehack.com/review-waterfox-browser
Waterfox was acquired by System1 in December 2019. System1 is an advertising company that takes a "privacy-focused" position in what it does. As noted previously, it is also the same company that purchased private search engine, Startpage (ext), sometime in Q4 of 2018.

This phone started out advertising encryption privacy etc, but they are based in San Francisco:

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
The Librem 5 is a phone built on PureOS, a fully free, ethical and open-source operating system that is not based on Android or iOS.

Truth! I use it and a VPN on all my devices, and recommend the same to all my friends and family. I am sure people thought Google and Amazon were weird too.. :)