Oh Calcutta!

We've lost e-mail & cell phones and all hand-helds

[weeks]

According to the Associated Press, effective as of 3 a.m. EDT Saturday, March 19, 2011, the official style for reporters became:
• email, instead of e-mail. (Other “e” terms, such as e-book and e-commerce, retain the hyphen,)

• Kolkata, India, instead of Calcutta, India. To follow local style.

• cellphone, smartphone become one word. (No longer cell phone and smart phone.)

• handheld, n., hand-held, adj.

[Leosghost]

I am looking at my domain name portfolio ..and smiling ;-))

[g1smd]

How long for Google's automated "Did you mean..." suggestions to reflect these changes? :)

[Leosghost]

It may be worth noting that ( from France at least ) the hyphenated versions have on average 5 times as many results shown in serps ..but the "new" non hyphenated versions have 3 times more ads showing on the right side in adwords.

So others have thought ahead too ;-) ..hyphen is and always has been way too hard to say over the phone ( and even more of a mouthful in French ) and most people forget it ..and an amazing ( to me anyway ) number of registrations only took the hyphenated versions of these words ..and left the non hyphenated versions as low hanging fruit in some very good KW1KW2.coms etc.

[HuskyPup]

hyphen is and always has been way too hard to say over the phone

A few years ago I gave one of my web addresses to a lady on the phone as company-name.com, she said it still won't connect therefore I asked her to repeat the spelling and she said, c-o-m-p-a-n-y-h-y-p-h-e-n-n-a-m-e-d-o-t-c-o-m...needless to say it took us a while to get back to work:-)

[brotherhood of LAN]

Seems natural for people to shorten regularly used words. Not typing the space must save a few man years every year.

Google became Goog then G... maybe it'll be non-existent in a decade ;o)

> gave one of my web addresses

I'd asked someone to check an address on their browser the other day and proceeded to type "www.dot" and claimed me saying dot was confusing. You cant win.

[g1smd]

Imagine trying to convey www.dotties-polka-dot-dress-store.com/ or somesuch URL over the phone. :)