Google Applies for New Trademark, Related to New Domain: Indexbench

A few weeks ago we noticed that Google applied for several new domains including:

+ bench-index.com (and .org, .info)

+ benchindex.com (and .org, .info)

+ Index-bench.com (and .org, .info)

+ indexbench.com (and .org, .info, .net)

Today, we learned that at the same time Google also applied for a trademark (a service mark to be specific) for the term Indexbench.

Those of you who like primary documents might want to look

http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1I1/.cmd/ad/.ar/sa.gov.uspto.tow.actions.DetailViewAction/.c/6_0_CH/.ce/7_0_1JJ/.p/5_0_1CH/.d/0?isSubmitted=true&details=&SELECT=US+Serial+No&TEXT=78965881#

at the application and this

http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1I1/.cmd/ad/.ar/sa.gov.uspto.tow.actions.DetailViewAction/.c/6_0_CH/.ce/7_0_1JJ/.p/5_0_1CH/.d/0?isSubmitted=true&details=&SELECT=US+Serial+No&TEXT=78965881#
drawing of the logo.

Philipp? Garett? Others? Your turn.

Great find! BTW what is this page for (http://www.google.com/ie).

<< BTW what is this page for (http://www.google.com/ie). >>

It's really old but recently discussed here:
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/68603.html

I wrote something about that a couple of weeks ago (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/09/evaluating-google-search-results.html). I think Google wants more quality raters (testers). For free.