On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:16:26 -0700 Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> 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. > Yea, google pathologically ignores anything that isn't strictly alphanumeric, even when you enclose in quotes. Fucking annoying as hell. Especially when you're trying to find something about C++ and the damn thing comes back with a bunch of C# results. That's a real obnoxious trend in computing: Software doing whatever the hell it feels like (usually under the guise of "being helpful") instead of doing what it's fucking told.
