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Horrible Taylor Swift puns in Swift development considered harmful. It's already been done[1], it makes your project completely un-Googleable, and it als

• deleted 10y ago
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• mrtksn 10y ago
  maybe un-Googleable but social-mediable as the pun increases visibility when the sharing and voting mechanism is involved.
  • usrusr 10y ago
    So it's like a captcha for index/retrieval, interesting. A purely cultural robots.txt reimplementation that extends the index invisibility cloak even to mentions on third party sites!
• _air 10y ago
  There's also Tailor: https://github.com/sleekbyte/tailor https://github.com/sleekbyte/tailor
• reacweb 10y ago
  As a go player, I had the same problem when google has created the go language.
  • volent 10y ago
    Try with baduk :)
• tener 10y ago
  This is a problem with Google, not with the names.
  • veidr 10y ago
    That doesn't really seem likely, since it's also a problem with every single other automated search engine in the world. Names are important; names are famously hard[1]. When I was young, I was a member of a band named Fuck You Asshole. Was that a problem with conversation, not with the band name? [1]: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096 https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096
    • lorenzhs 10y ago
      It's a problem of recognising context. Current technology is not very good at this. What would be nice to have is automatic disambiguation - taking fdej's example, when searching for "Taylor shift", a search engine could ask "Did you mean Taylor Swift, or do you want to shift polynomials?". Other possible examples: "bat" (flying animals or sports equipment?), "rock" (stones, music, or maybe both? :P), "minute" (60 seconds, report, or something extremely small?). In all of these cases, the software can't tell the meanings apart very well yet. That's a problem with the software.
      • JoeAltmaier 10y ago
        duckduckgo does exactly that - it lists all the possible interpretations across the top of the results page, plus a list of likely matches (based on statistics I suppose). Try searching for 'polish' which could mean making shoes shiny, or central European people.
• wruza 10y ago
  Why stop? Maybe it is google that should implement something like ':technology' area searches.
• elt0n 10y ago
  Someone slept though their humor class. Try this -> :)
• tempodox 10y ago
  Lack of humour considered harmful.
• fdej 10y ago
  No deliberate puns required. As a computer algebraist, it bothers me that "Taylor shift" is un-Googleable.