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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by techdragon on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:04PM (#29298246)
Like the “Go” programming language. Only Google could have gotten away with this name since to be honest I was pretty sure it used to be a “do not brother indexing”/“stop word” back in the day. So I honestly suspect Google had to alter their search engine to search for the programming language they invented just because they made it impossible to search for because of how bad the name is.
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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by bee_rider on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:24PM (#29298424)
C gets a pass because it is older than search engines, but Go was a pretty bad name.
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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by PeterisP on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:49PM (#29299099)
For me it seems like that the common workarounds (searching for "golang" "csharp" etc) make it not really a problem.
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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by ectopod on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:16PM (#29298862)
When Go was new they recommended using "golang" for web searches. I still do though it sounds like it's unnecessary now.
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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by chrsig on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:34PM (#29298988)
there's also a non trivial amount of zealots that then complain when people refer to the language as "golang"...it's not correct, but hardly surprising either
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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by marcosdumay on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:44PM (#29299527)
At this point clang and rcran should as well change their official names. Golang has better possibilities on the horizon, but it wouldn't hurt either.
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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by matsemann on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:53PM (#29298675)
They did alter it for google+, at least.
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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by webmaven on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:18PM (#29298878)
> They did alter it for google+, at least.

Yes, and nerfed the + search operator in the process.

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