Like me, you may have noticed that the word “Compuntoes” has been in the top three most searched terms on Technorati for the last few days, but doesn’t pull up any meaningful results? This is because “Compuntoes” isn’t actually a word at all, but an amalgamation of the Spanish “Com Punto Es“, (Spain’s domain extension “com.es”), which is being used as the target “search term” for the latest SEO Contest.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) contests are when webmasters compete to get their site ranked first in the search engines for a given, (usually made-up), search term. The contest ends on the 1st February 2007, when whichever site is in the top spot will be declaired the winner. So it looks like the term Compuntoes may be with us for some time yet.