totally satisfied :D

[David Nadlinger]

On Monday, 17 September 2012 at 07:16:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Monday, September 17, 2012 09:05:48 David Nadlinger wrote:
>> On Sunday, 16 September 2012 at 21:59:30 UTC, Jøn wrote:
>> > The best idea I had today: rename D into :D
>> > 
>> > * Easier to google
>> 
>> You might be surprised to see that D is the number 1 result for
>> ":D" even today.
>
> The search results seem to be identical whether you search for 
> D or :D, so the
> colon seems to be ignored.

This was exactly my point – prepending a colon doesn't 
magically make the name "easier to google" (if the proposal was 
even meant serious in the first place).

> Of course, the fact that dlang.org comes up first
> could just be because google taylors its results to you, and 
> we're both people
> who deal with D (and presumably search for it from time to 
> time) already.

I used a completely fresh browser session and was connected via 
my university network, so unless Google does a really worrying 
amount of tracking…

David