Changing the name of the language?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Manu" <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.778.1331920080.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On 16 March 2012 03:23, ixid <nuaccount at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> D is a very poor name for a language. I appreciate it's late in the day
>> for this and that it has probably been discussed before (not that I could
>> find such a discussion with Google which relates to my point). Although 
>> the
>> results for D are fine when googling for things like "D tutorial", more
>> obscure terms are hard to find because "d" is so commonly used as a
>> variable name. Searchability is important though I understand that this
>> might be seen as a trivial point, it is a major human factor. The 
>> language
>> would be far better off with a 3 to 5 letter identifier. It will succeed 
>> or
>> fail for other reasons but an easily searchable name would help. Dlang as
>> the search term isn't good enough because it's not actually the 
>> language's
>> name, people don't use it that much when referring to D, nor do they
>> usually use D2.
>>
>
> Do you have trouble googling for C? I find that D related results are
> currently only around 4-5 down the google results list, and it'll only get
> higher as it get's more popular.
> C searches are fine... I am often surprised just how much influence
> programmers seem to have on search results placement.
>

Google search results are different for everybody. They tailor the search 
results they give you based on your past search (and clickthrough) history. 
If you're doing a lot of programmer searches, they're going to start giving 
you more programmer results.

That's one of many reasons I used to use Scroogle, and now that Scroogle's 
dead (RIP), IxQuick and StartPage.

See also "Filter bubble": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble