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Like the “Go” programming language. Only Google could have gotten away with this name since to be honest I was pretty sure it used to be a “do not brother index
by techdragon 5y ago
Like the “Go” programming language. Only Google could have gotten away with this name since to be honest I was pretty sure it used to be a “do not brother indexing”/“stop word” back in the day. So I honestly suspect Google had to alter their search engine to search for the programming language they invented just because they made it impossible to search for because of how bad the name is.
- bee_rider 5y agoC gets a pass because it is older than search engines, but Go was a pretty bad name.
- matsemann 5y agoThey did alter it for google+, at least.
- webmaven 5y ago> They did alter it for google+, at least. Yes, and nerfed the + search operator in the process.
- ectopod 5y agoWhen Go was new they recommended using "golang" for web searches. I still do though it sounds like it's unnecessary now.
- chrsig 5y agothere's also a non trivial amount of zealots that then complain when people refer to the language as "golang"...it's not correct, but hardly surprising either
- marcosdumay 5y agoAt this point clang and rcran should as well change their official names. Golang has better possibilities on the horizon, but it wouldn't hurt either.
- PeterisP 5y agoFor me it seems like that the common workarounds (searching for "golang" "csharp" etc) make it not really a problem.