On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Andrej Mitrovic <[email protected] > wrote:
> > Speaking of language names.. I never understood why people whine about > "D not being searchable because of its name". Then how is `C` > searchable? Heck, half of the results when searching for C will land > you C++ results. And searching just for `C` isn't going to give you > good results in the first place unless Google has some of your > previous searches stored and figures out you're looking for the > programming language and not something else. > > I'd say the primary reason someone won't land on a D page if it's the > first time she's looking for it is because D is simply not that > popular yet. But saying that it's not searchable because of its name > is silly, imo. > Interesting your brought that up. Here is Google search results: C programming language == About 18,200,000 results C++ programming language == About 6,030,000 results D programming language == About 5,950,000 results java programming language == About 9,130,000 results python programming language == About 3,720,000 results ruby programming language == About 354,000 results go programming language == About 12,700,000 results and here are the exact search results: "C programming language" == About 902,000 results "C++ programming language" == About 371,000 results "D programming language" == About 75,800 results "java programming language" == About 1,250,000 results "python programming language" == About 238,000 results "ruby programming language" == About 132,000 results "go programming language" == About 116,000 results
