Hmmm. Every time I search for something using the search string "dlang", Google asks me did I mean "golang". Are Google getting worried about the success of D?

-=mike=-

On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 at 12:42:47 UTC, Mike James wrote:
> Hmmm. Every time I search for something using the search string "dlang", Google asks me did I mean "golang". Are Google getting worried about the success of D?
>
> -=mike=-

I guess that is search personalization in action ;)

On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 at 12:44:40 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 at 12:42:47 UTC, Mike James wrote:
>> Hmmm. Every time I search for something using the search string "dlang", Google asks me did I mean "golang". Are Google getting worried about the success of D?
>>
>> -=mike=-
>
> I guess that is search personalization in action ;)

Yeah, that doesn't happen for me. I notice that you also use "dlang" in place of "d" in search results. "dlang" seems to get better results on average for me.

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 07:28:48PM +0200, w0rp wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 at 12:44:40 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> >On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 at 12:42:47 UTC, Mike James wrote:
> >>Hmmm. Every time I search for something using the search string "dlang", Google asks me did I mean "golang". Are Google getting worried about the success of D?
> >>
> >>-=mike=-
> >
> >I guess that is search personalization in action ;)
> 
> Yeah, that doesn't happen for me. I notice that you also use "dlang" in place of "d" in search results. "dlang" seems to get better results on average for me.

This is unfortunate though: https://github.com/dlang

It shows up as the 3rd result on my google search for "dlang".


T

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