Completeness

Typo? CanadaDrugs.com vs. CanadaRugs.com —

Online pharmacy argues “Rugs” is merely a typo of “Drugs”.

Here’s an interesting UDRP case from National Arbitration Forum.

The company that runs CanadaDrugs.com, a popular online pharmacy, filed a complaint against the owner of CanadaRugs.com, which is a parked page featuring links for rugs.

CanadaDrugs.com tried to argue that the owner of CanadaRugs.com was typosquatting:

Complainant submits that the Domain Name is confusingly similar to its website and Canada Drugs Marks and that respondent has merely removed the letter “d” from the spelling of the word “Drugs” in the Domain Name. Complainant also submits that this omission of the letter “d” constitutes typosquatting and that Respondent has registered the Domain Name in an effort to take advantage of internet users’ typographical errors. Complainant argues that this alteration is not sufficient to distinguish the Domain Name from its own domain name and registered marks.

Hmm. Did it not occur to their lawyers that “Rugs” is a word?

The links on CanadaRugs.com are clearly unrelated to drugs, but the complainant argued that the parked page was a sign of bad faith intent to profit on the “typo”.

The panelist found that the two domain names were not confusingly similar for this reason. He then considered the last two elements of the UDRP “for completeness”, finding in the respondent’s favor. But for some reason he neglected to consider reverse domain name hijacking, even though the respondent asked for it.

The kicker? CanadaRugs.com is available for purchase on Sedo for only 500 EUR.

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Since the launch of Open Site Explorer and our API update, Chas, Ben and I have invested a lot of time and energy into improving the freshness and completeness of Linkscape's data.  I'm pleased to announce that we've updated the Linkcape index with crawl data that's between two and five weeks old—the freshest it's ever been.  We've also changed how we select pages, in order to get deeper coverage on important domains and waste less time on prolific but unimportant domains. 

You may recall Rand's recent post about prioritizing the best pages to crawl, and mine about churn in the web. We've applied some of the principles from these posts to our own crawling and indexing. Rand discussed how crawlers might discover good content on a domain by selecting well-linked-to entry points:

In the past, we've selected pages to crawl based purely on mozRank.  That turned out to favor some unsavory elements (you know who you are :P).  Now, we look at each domain and determine how authoritative it is.  From there we select pages using the principle illustrated above:  Highly linked-to pages—the homepage, category pages, important pieces of deep content—link to other important pages we should crawl.  From intuition and experience we believe this gives the right behavior to crawl like a search engine would.

In a past post, I discussed the importance of fresh data.  After all, if 25% of pages on the web disappear after one month, data collected two or more months ago just isn't actionable.

From now on, we're focusing on that first bar in the graph above. By the time our data approaches that second bar (meaning most of it is out of date), we should have an index update for you.  If and when we show you historical data, we'll mark it as such.

What this means for you is that all our tools powered by Linkscape will provide fresher, more relevant data, and we'll have better coverage than ever.  This includes things like:

• Open Site Explorer
• Competitive Link Finder
• Linkscape Visualization

As well as products and tools developed outside SEOmoz using either the free or paid API:

• Buzzstream
• Quirk's Search Status Toolbar
• Carter Cole's Toolbar for Chrome

There are plenty more.  In fact, you could build one too!

Because I know how much everyone likes numbers, here are some stats from our latest index:

• URLs: 43,813,674,337
• Subdomains: 251,428,688
• Root Domains: 69,881,887
• Links: 9,204,328,536,611

Our last index update was on January 17th.  You might recall some bigger numbers in the last update.  Because of the changes to our crawl selection, our latest index should exclude a lot of duplicate content, spam pages, link farms, and spider traps while keeping high quality content.

Our next update is scheduled for March 11. But we'll update the index before then if the data is ready early :)

As always, keep the feedback coming.  With our own toolset relying on this data, and dozens of partners using our API to develop their own applications, it's critical that we hear what you guys think.

NOTE: we're still updating the top 500 list at the moment.  We'll tweet when that's ready.

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Sloping House … or Aftermath of a Huge Stone Avalanche? — [ Filed under Contemporary or in the Architecture category ]

Steep slope aside, this house is an impressive structure – but built from local stone and tied to the surrounding landscape like a pile of falling rocks and it becomes a work of dynamic architectural genius that is at once an intervention and part of its environment.

Set in a valley between even-steeper mountain slopes on either side, the alignment of these offbeat boxes (that combine to make up the whole home) is not a visual trick – this move is also designed to create views for the residences inside of prominent landmarks and landscape features outside of the building.

Sectioning off the internal spaces like this also allows for the structure to serve various purposes for different occasions, working as a single unit or a series of mini-condos that can be broken up should family or friend groups want to use this as a group of segmented retreat rooms.

Finally, these forms are indeed quite striking from the outside looking up, down or in (depending on whether you view from the surrounding mountains, valley or lake level below) and in various lighting and weather conditions as well, from day, dusk and night to bright summers and snowy winters.

While it is clear that some architects use complex geometries simply to show off and set a building apart from its environment, this home by Alric Galindez Arquitectos is both an aesthetic accomplishment as well as a functioning work of residential architecture on many levels (both physical and metaphorical).

[ Dornob Design - Filed under Contemporary or in the Architecture category ]