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For google-ability did you really need to occupy Oil Shell when Shell Oil is very much already a thing?

• notriddle 5y ago
  Seems like search engines are smart enough to distinguish them. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oil+shell https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oil+shell
  • bscphil 5y ago
    I can't tell if you're joking, all of the results except the top one show "Shell oil" results for me. Not hard to imagine that this impacts searchability if you're looking for something specific.
    • ironmagma 5y ago
      Heck, sometimes I search for oil shell when I’m looking for shell oil. I wouldn’t even want a search engine to know about order.
    • notriddle 5y ago
      Yes, but the first result for this one is oil shell, whereas if I search the other way around it isn’t even on page 1.
• booleandilemma 5y ago
  I wonder if people will end up googling it as oillang (or even oilang), similar to what happened with golang.
  • ironmagma 5y ago
    Wouldn’t it be oillang?
  • leoc 5y ago
    Let's hope so, because 'oil language' is also going to be problematic: https://www.google.com/search?q=oil+language https://www.google.com/search?q=oil+language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl . I came here half-expecting an article about medieval French.
• ketralnis 5y ago
  A metric by which the optimal language is AmbidextrousScallywag