Guest Idea 6: Paid Predictive Text Placements

Text Pest

OK, we're up to Guest Idea No.6 already. And I think there might even be enough of a backlog to get to 10.

But obviously, it would be much better if this site just became other peoples' ideas, because as this one shows, irritatingly yet again, other people have better ideas. So please keep on emailing them in.

This one's from Jared. But staggeringly has nothing to do with meat. Over to Jared.

"It'd be pretty easy to bribe a phone company to get your brand name into predictive text. But companies could take it further - like with Google AdWords, they should pay to get their brand name made into one of the first options that comes up.

Why, for example, does tapping in 'ebay' get me 'daby'? Or 'google' get me 'gongle'? The last proper word suggested when you tap in g-o-o-g-l-e is 'honest' (after g-o-o), so 'google doesn't even have any competition.

And don't tell me that 'Tesco' couldn't afford to buy priority placement over 'verbose'.

Motorola, my actual make of phone, doesn't even appear... which seems a bit of an oversight."

Feasibility Rating: 8