Changing the name of the language?

[Manu]

On 16 March 2012 23:29, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "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.
>

Perfect! So no problem then! Use D for a couple of months, and your search
results will sort themselves out :)
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