Dec 20 2006
The 10 most overused internet words of 2006
In response to Google’s top 10 searches for 2006 here are 10 words & phrases that I’ve read far too many times this year and would prefer to hear less in 2007.
- web 2.0 - the reasons behind this one are obvious, you must be sick of it too?
- longtail - great idea, great book etc but we don’t all have to quote it so much. Time for some new ideas
- meme - this one probably bugs me the most, and not just me
- kool aid - reading the origins of this one on wikipedia make it a lot less entertaining
- google - we really need some decent competition in this industry
- link bait - doesn’t this just mean decent content with a compelling headline?
- dmoz - time to stop using this one all together, it’s time has gone and it’s no longer worthy of the attention
- adsense - I agree, it’s not a business model
- alexa - why do we bother to measure with something that is so hopelessly inaccurate?
- I ran out of ideas here - help me out with which words & phrases you don’t want to hear next year
p.s. Purely for my own entertainment I wanted to see if one site was talking about all these things and I was surprised to find it’s the excellent SEOmoz which is the only result returned.
Well it won’t stop me reading but it will still bug me when I see these terms 
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Dec 20th, 2006 at 11:58 am | #
Digg - I’d stick that in there too. It’s for the geek by the geek, no practical mainstream use in its current format.
Dec 20th, 2006 at 2:07 pm | #
“My bad” - Your bad what?
Dec 20th, 2006 at 2:36 pm | #
Why “kool aid” - I don’t get it. What’s driving you nuts about it? Is it being used in a way that isn’t the flavored drink?
Dec 20th, 2006 at 6:01 pm | #
Eric, it’s when people say
‘drinking the kool aid’
or
‘drinking your own kool aid’
I see that all the time at the moment. Read the second haf of the wikipedia article.
Dec 20th, 2006 at 7:20 pm | #
I see… I haven’t heard that much over here, but I have heard of that group mentioned in the wiki. However, that event happened before I was born :p
Dec 21st, 2006 at 8:05 am | #
Eric - Sorry I was out and about yesterday and didn’t post a great reply. I meant it more in the sense of definition 3 here
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drink+the+kool-aid
“3. drink the kool-aid
Going along with what a crowd desires. Often used when a person changes positions on a topic”
It seems to be getting used lots by bloggers at the moment
http://www.chris-hooley.com/2006/08/21/need-seo-dont-drink-the-kool-aid/
http://www.grayhatnews.com/node/389
http://www.stuntdubl.com/2006/08/19/best-posts-updated/
http://trafficbrain.com/2006/08/15/ranking-50-top-blogs-in-the-search-space/
Dec 21st, 2006 at 8:06 am | #
Chris - I nearly did include Digg in there but I do think it has some merit.
Dan - I couldn’t agree more with that one!
Any more?
Dec 22nd, 2006 at 1:28 pm | #
Arbitrage !
Jan 5th, 2007 at 6:10 pm | #
I’m getting tired of a few things:
Whitehat vs blackhat
thin affiliates
supplemental hell
cuttlets
Jan 10th, 2007 at 11:57 am | #
Yeah I’m sick of hearing whitehat v blackhat too!
Haven’t heard too much about cuttlets but I’m sure it’s just a matter of time.
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