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Everyone who at least couple of times googled for anything Go related knows this site. Should I post golang.org now, because there may be someone living under a

• laumars 11y ago
  I've been programming in Go for a few years now and I've never seen this site before. It's quite possible that the specific search terms you use (eg I never include "example" when Googling about Go[1]) and Google's personalisation (eg favouring resources you've used previously) would result in different search results to what other people might receive. [1] Since any resource offering help in programming will include example source code, I always considered the search term "example" to be redundant.
  • myst 11y ago
    I have history turned off in google search. "golang slices" or "golang maps" has the site in top-5. vOv
    • laumars 11y ago
      Result #5 on a query that generic is quite far down when you consider that all of the top 4 results would equally answer the question. So many people might not get as far as gobyexample.com using your search term example. Plus on queries that generic, a lot of people might just go straight to golang.org and re-read their docs. Obviously this isn't the case for everyone, but it would explain why I've personally never heard of gobyexample.com before.