It is not unusual to see e-gold domain names in search results these days, especially on MSN and Yahoo Search.
So many netpreneurs today have registered domain names containing the word e-gold, hoping to rank-well in search engines. Domain names combined with country names, service, city name, are now commonplace. Example: egoldmalaysia, egoldusa egoldhosting etc.
Trademark issues seem to have been thrown into the wind and e-gold Ltd (issuers of e-gold digital currency) don’t seem to be bothered either.
Such sites manage to rank well on MSN Search (Windows Live Search) but not on Google, with has a much tighter website ranking algorithm.
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