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On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungo
by hliyan 6y ago
On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?
- business007 6y agobetter find a nickname, like D's community did, using dlang lol otherwise no one could find anything on language googling
- schwartzworld 6y agohow hard would it be to learn BASIC using Google? "Basic Programming" is going to have a lot of irrelevant results.
- identity0 6y agoTry it! Nearly every result is related to BASIC. Search engines have gotten very good at guessing what is and isn't a proper noun over the years.
- iso1631 6y agoDDG'd BASIC programming all the results were about BASIC, the wiki page to start with, then * BASIC Programming : 7 Steps - Instructables * Learn More - Just BASIC * The History of the BASIC Programming Language * Programming in BASIC: the absolute beginner tutorial * FreeBASIC Language | Home * PureBasic - A powerful BASIC programming language * Quite BASIC — fun, learning and nostalgia * World of Spectrum - Documentation - ZX Spectrum manual Only after all that is a non-basic link * Introduction | Programming for Beginners
- ithkuil 6y agoSearched BASIC programming on Google and if also returned results relevant to the actual programming language
- mdifrgechd 6y agoBASIC programming ironicly may return better results than if you search for something about a more mainstream current language e.g. python. I often find the first few results are some search engine spam... tutorialspoint or geeksforgeeks etc, when a link to the API would be the logical first result. (Usually the first link to the api is for 3.4 or some random version also)
- OscarCunningham 6y agoI've often wondered if any metallurgists have tried to run computer simulations of the annealing process. How would you find their research if they had?
- smartscience 6y agoActually yes :) At least the optimization crowd don't use the phase 'heat treatment', which helps somewhat. But who I really feel bad for is the recruiters trying to hire a chemist who specialises in the element lead.
- bigiain 6y agoBRB: going to SEO spam my simulated annealing NPM library homepage with "heat treatment"...
- rodw 6y agoI don't know whether they actually do it but it seems really easy to treat "BASIC" as a distinct idiomatic token from "basic" when the searcher bothers to get the casing right.
- danellis 6y agoThe Go community had to do the same. Go. A language created by a company that makes a well known search engine.
- abrowne 6y agoBut by staff who has worked on Plan 9, right?
- GauntletWizard 6y agoSometimes obscurity, as well as tweaking your nose at convention, is a feature.
- aasasd 6y agoThose people made it so that one-letter identifier names and junk like ‘fmt’ and ‘Fprintln(w)’ is again okay. So the unusable name fits the spirit quite well.
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- achairapart 6y agoLaunch a multi-million dollar brand advertising campaign.
- mtmail 6y agoAnd I thought Yahoo! (with exclamation mark) had it rough.
- LeifCarrotson 6y agoAt least they're a little better than a hypothetical -"Yahoo" which would return no results for your company at all...
- Zelphyr 6y agoIs it "Colon Blow"?
- newcomputer 6y agoNo, it's ":penetration."
- willturman 6y agoThis just made me laugh so hard. Phil Hartman was great. Here's the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku42Iszh9KM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku42Iszh9KM
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoIt really is amazing how big a difference this makes. I've started using Apple's Aperture software recently (I'm well aware it's been discontinued). I really like it, but my biggest frustration is that it's difficult to learn how to do new things, because "aperture" is a generic word in photography. I can't search for the name and get results about the software.
- dqv 6y ago>I'm well aware it's been discontinued Limiting the dates to indexes before 2016 might help (at least with google). You can usually train google to get you what you want after a few searches. This was initially a problem with the Elixir programming language, but it learned what I actually wanted it started letting me just type in the term elixir without specifying it was a programming language. On other computers not associated with that account, it does revert back to the not-so-useful results. e.g. apple "aperture" color correction before:2016
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago> but it learned what I actually wanted it started letting me just type in the term elixir without specifying it was a programming language Oh, you know what, this might be largely my own fault. I purposefully use Startpage.com as my search engine in order to avoid getting customized results (while still using Google's index). I worry that customized results put me in a filter bubble—but they certainly have their advantages!
- RandallBrown 6y agoThe band Chvrches chose to use the the Roman "u" to spell their name so they'd be easier to search.
- Freak_NL 6y agoKind of hard to pronounce though. Like that jewellery brand, seemingly pronounced 'buffelgary' or something.
- Scoundreller 6y agoDon’t go with !!! You’ll never find them on YouTube or google unless you search for their informal name: chk chk chk
- LeoPanthera 6y agoGoogle have a hardcoded exception for the band "the the".
- cpeterso 6y agoSiriusXM truncates a "The" prefix from artist names (so "The Cure" and "The Who" become "Cure" and "Who"). I always wondered how it would display The The. Would it be "The The" (special case), "The" (default removal of "The"), or an empty string "" (in the unlikely case the algorithm recursively removed "The" prefixes)? Eventually they played a The The song and the answer is "The The".
- yaboy 6y agoHowever, they benefitted greatly in the early ‘00s. If you had them in your Apple Music library, iTunes always put them at the top of your alphabetical music library, keeping them top of mind, ! comes before A. There might have a similar iTunes Store benefit too. Terrible Google SEO, great accidental Apple SEO.
- Freak_NL 6y ago
- saalweachter 6y agoBack when I worked at a comparison shopping engine, I had a bit of a laugh when I saw that the indexing pipeline was generating error messages because the "clean" function returned empty for some products in the feed from Amazon, because they had names like "++++++". It was usually musical albums that liked to have names that made it impossible for fans to find the music.
- kps 6y agoIn another era, “+++ATH” would have been a good name.
- KineticLensman 6y ago> Musical albums that liked to have names The band 'Audiobooks' has taken this to the next level
- skocznymroczny 6y ago:oscopy ?
- kps 6y ago:wq!
- joubert 6y agoI found your company name in your profile - ":different" Even if I google ":different" company or without the colon, top results for me is a parfumerie. When I google different australia, you're the top result.
- nullsense 6y agoSurprised New Zealand isn't the top result when you Google "different Australia"
- edoceo 6y agoBecause it's East Australia
- nullsense 6y agoMore like Australia is the West Island of NZ.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoI thought that different Australia is Austria.
- jkingsbery 6y agoConvince the powers-that-be in your company to invest in contracting with a marketing/SEO person or team to help come up with a new name. You want someone with marketing chops so that it's a good name, but you also want someone who knows about SEO so you don't end up on the second page for your own name search.
- mkl 6y agoJust change the name. It'll be easier and more cost effective in the long run. I've started working with some software called STACK recently, and it's almost impossible to find anything by searching (go ahead and try!). If it was a commercial product they would be sunk.
- tlavoie 6y agoAt least if it's Haskell's stack build tool, adding the language name to the query makes it pop right up. Not sure if this helps in your case though.