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The conference was sponsored by The Wall Street Journal. “What will it be called?” asked conference host and Wall Street refer Journal columnist Kara Swisher. “Might be one of those words without the other,” Diller answered. The new name has not been decided, he added. So which one Ask or Jeeves? Jeeves wouldn’t refer be much of a change. Ask by itself presents its own issues, for starters it would have to fight for mind share with the just-launched Answers.com and the already-established About.com. They’d be looking at Ask.com, Answers.com & refer About.com — talk about muddy. And none of the three sites could ever drop the “.com” from their name, because all of their names are too generic to trademark without it. Of bigger concern is the track record of generic brands on the web, especially in this space. Remember FindWhat, LookSmart, InfoSeek, AllTheWeb, etc? How about Pets.com, Drugstore.com or Business.com? And there are no intellectual property laws stopping anyone from launching AskAbout.com,
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