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Re:Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia by pergadad on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:24PM (#20689850)
Why do people choose such names for their product? It's s city and its one of the most widely reported works in education (programme for international student assessment) with millions of news articles. How do you want to be findable with a name like this?
Re:Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia by amallia on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @06:47AM (#20694198)
We rely on different user intents. Search for "PISA engine" or "PISA search" and you will find this tool and not the city. Being found by the keyword `PISA` on Google is not necessarily our main goal. We are not selling anything, the community is just building a product for IR research. We are willing to gain interest from skilled people in the end. I don't think it really matters if there are `news` about the city, we are not targeting the news anyway.

Also, think about `Windows` or `Go`, there is no way you get confused once these words are in the right context.

Re:Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia by ithkuil on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:30PM (#20689899)
While poor search recall is a bit ironic for the name of a search engine, I guess it's because Antonio has studied at the University of Pisa and later worked as researcher for the CNR institute for research, again in Pisa. (Me too, hi!).
Re:Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia by amallia on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @06:29AM (#20694133)
Good to see you Marko!