Changing the name of the language?

[Chris Dahl]

A while back I put this search page together.  I killed the old
domain, but have set the site up on a new domain.  In short, it is a
custom Google search of D related web sites.  The list of sites is
old, so if I need to add some, just let me know.  I would prefer to
base urls that are strictly D related to keep the results 'pure'.

http://crdahl.com/d/

--Chris

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :)