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Vector is super generic, not so great. Its also think of Mathy which may scare some people off.

by ape4 6y ago

GekkePrutser 6y ago
Yeah but consider other brands that are mainstream now. They sound kind of stupid too.. I mean.. Google? Yahoo? Go Daddy? Duck Duck Go? Really I wonder how these made it past initial adoption sometimes :) I think the name is not so important as long as it doesn't have a negative context. It's more about the overall brand identity. And now they're household names.
- stu2b50 6y ago
  Those are all very distinctive, not generic, and not overloaded, though. If you name your product vector, when a consumer google's your name they're going to get a Wikipedia page about linear algebra.
  - Arathorn 6y ago
    ironically, if you google Riot right now, we're the 4th hit (behind Riot Games)
  - GekkePrutser 6y ago
    Well yes but that's all part of the popularity. When a consumer would google "Go daddy" before the company was popular, they probably wouldn't find much unless they had safe search off ;) A "Yahoo" is kind of a weird person if I understand the term correctly, or a statement of joy. Searches for that wouldn't have turned up anything else until the company got big. And Google, it would probably turn up a wikipedia page about strange looks. In fact it's quite a weird term when you think of it. Though of course wikipedia wasn't around when Google was founded. My point is, this goes for all brands until they're popular. But anyway we know it's not going to be Vector again. Looking forward to seeing the new name.
    - stu2b50 6y ago
      Not to the same degree, though. Before Google, Google was not a common page. When Google was just a medium sized company (ok, when Google was a medium sized company SEO wasn't a thing since they were making it, but y'know, pretend), they would already be at the top. Same for Yahoo, or Go-daddy. I'm sure there are things besides those companies that would get hit, but it wouldn't take long for them to beat them in pagerank. >Searches for that wouldn't have turned up anything else until the company got big. I disagree, I think they would shoot up there considering the pretty barren wasteland of other pages about Yahoo the expression. Vector is super overloaded. It's a very important part of mathematics. It's also an MLM that sells knives. It's also a robot. Vector the Matrix client would have much, much more work comparatively.

Vector is super generic, not so great. Its also think of Mathy which may scare some people off.

by ape4 6y ago

Vector is super generic, not so great. Its also think of Mathy which may scare some people off.

Yeah but consider other brands that are mainstream now. They sound kind of stupid too.. I mean.. Google? Yahoo? Go Daddy? Duck Duck Go? Really I wonder how these made it past initial adoption sometimes :) I think the name is not so important as long as it doesn't have a negative context. It's more about the overall brand identity. And now they're household names.

stu2b50 6y ago
Those are all very distinctive, not generic, and not overloaded, though. If you name your product vector, when a consumer google's your name they're going to get a Wikipedia page about linear algebra.
- Arathorn 6y ago
  ironically, if you google Riot right now, we're the 4th hit (behind Riot Games)
- GekkePrutser 6y ago
  Well yes but that's all part of the popularity. When a consumer would google "Go daddy" before the company was popular, they probably wouldn't find much unless they had safe search off ;) A "Yahoo" is kind of a weird person if I understand the term correctly, or a statement of joy. Searches for that wouldn't have turned up anything else until the company got big. And Google, it would probably turn up a wikipedia page about strange looks. In fact it's quite a weird term when you think of it. Though of course wikipedia wasn't around when Google was founded. My point is, this goes for all brands until they're popular. But anyway we know it's not going to be Vector again. Looking forward to seeing the new name.
  - stu2b50 6y ago
    Not to the same degree, though. Before Google, Google was not a common page. When Google was just a medium sized company (ok, when Google was a medium sized company SEO wasn't a thing since they were making it, but y'know, pretend), they would already be at the top. Same for Yahoo, or Go-daddy. I'm sure there are things besides those companies that would get hit, but it wouldn't take long for them to beat them in pagerank. >Searches for that wouldn't have turned up anything else until the company got big. I disagree, I think they would shoot up there considering the pretty barren wasteland of other pages about Yahoo the expression. Vector is super overloaded. It's a very important part of mathematics. It's also an MLM that sells knives. It's also a robot. Vector the Matrix client would have much, much more work comparatively.