reddit discussion about Go turns to D again

[Walter Bright]

On 5/15/2011 5:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 05/15/2011 06:39 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Making up unique names is the right thing to do for branding and
>> establishing a trademark. Otherwise, search engine friendly terms are
>> far and away the better option.
> That was much more the case for AltaVista than Google, which uses quite
> different approaches to ranking.

For ranking, perhaps. But for figuring out what the page is about (relevance), I 
think the url has a large influence.