On 16 March 2012 23:29, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: > "Manu" <turkey...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.778.1331920080.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > On 16 March 2012 03:23, ixid <nuacco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> D is a very poor name for a language. I appreciate it's late in the day > >> for this and that it has probably been discussed before (not that I > could > >> find such a discussion with Google which relates to my point). Although > >> the > >> results for D are fine when googling for things like "D tutorial", more > >> obscure terms are hard to find because "d" is so commonly used as a > >> variable name. Searchability is important though I understand that this > >> might be seen as a trivial point, it is a major human factor. The > >> language > >> would be far better off with a 3 to 5 letter identifier. It will succeed > >> or > >> fail for other reasons but an easily searchable name would help. Dlang > as > >> the search term isn't good enough because it's not actually the > >> language's > >> name, people don't use it that much when referring to D, nor do they > >> usually use D2. > >> > > > > Do you have trouble googling for C? I find that D related results are > > currently only around 4-5 down the google results list, and it'll only > get > > higher as it get's more popular. > > C searches are fine... I am often surprised just how much influence > > programmers seem to have on search results placement. > > > > Google search results are different for everybody. They tailor the search > results they give you based on your past search (and clickthrough) history. > If you're doing a lot of programmer searches, they're going to start giving > you more programmer results. >
Perfect! So no problem then! Use D for a couple of months, and your search results will sort themselves out :)