Timeline for Should I use singular or plural nouns in a domain name and why?
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| Aug 27, 2010 at 15:17 | comment | added | Kris | All languages are 'compatible with stemming' however automatic stemming is difficult for some (although a brute force dictionary can be employed). Example: Icelandic, wherein it is alot more than just singular and plural that needs to be defined! | |
| Aug 27, 2010 at 14:48 | comment | added | danlefree | @Kris - I was just checking up on your assertion at Google Language Tools and I was pleased to find that Google offers a noun definition for both singular and plural forms of nouns when you translate a variety of words from English -> Arabic, Afrikaans, Chinese, ... care to elaborate on which languages are incompatible with stemming? | |
| Aug 27, 2010 at 11:02 | comment | added | Kris | RE: word stems. That is certainly true for English (and may be true for French) but some languages make it very difficult to automatically stem words. | |
| Aug 27, 2010 at 8:33 | comment | added | danlefree | @RandomBen - Domain name keywords have historically mattered far more at search engines other than the big G (compare a search for the words "internet book seller" at Google and at Yahoo, for example) | |
| Aug 27, 2010 at 3:36 | comment | added | Ben Hoffman | @denlefree +1 Good answer. I didn't know Google went that far with domain names. I thought they did with regular search results but I have found that searching singular and plural forms of the same words always return different results. | |
| Aug 27, 2010 at 2:21 | history | answered | danlefree | CC BY-SA 2.5 |