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Try Gmail Baptizing if You're in the Blue

The email service is very creative

By Vlad Constandes, SEO News Editor

3rd of January 2008, 14:36 GMT

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DIfferent is not bad. It's... different!

Availability for your desired username is always a difficult thing to find so many people turn to the randomized name suggestion, not caring or simply because it actually returned something perhaps

better than the original idea (not that it's very likely, but still�)

Every mail service from every company on the market has one of these randomizing things out in the open and they're willing to lend a hand to those who couldn't find the "belovedprincecharming," or anything of the likes, ID to be theirs for the taking. Tough luck, they say, how about "belovedprincecharming_in_yo_face"? Ok, it doesn't come to that kind of language but they are indeed very creative.

I've tried, pointed by an article written by Philipp Lenssen of blogoscoped.com, to test the Gmail baptizer and I should tell you that it does not come short when it comes to coming up with stuff you wouldn't expect it in a million years to. Philipp tried leaving the "First name" and "Last name" boxes empty and just fill in the "Desired Login Name" one with 123456 (it must have at least six characters in order to be accepted). Seeing as that was taken, the randomizer-baptizer came up with� (drums thundering, readers having heart attacks or seizures from the tension of the moment)� "presentrough4164" or "generalrough.37037542563". You can easily observe the general "rough" motif, surely.

When I tried it I went for the stutter's old time favorite "aaaaaaa" as you can see in the screenshot and voila! It tells me that I should actually be greatdifferent.4294. How about that. I put in the same letter seven times and it tells me that difference is my middle name. I guess they don't call it randomizer for nothing. I ting they should call it instead� erm� antonymizer? Is that even a word?

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