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1. Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 12:07:00 JST Wrongthink

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   • Tomat0

   @tomat0 To be fair, the major commercial search engines themselves no longer appear to prioritize search by keyword, but rather attempt to interpret what is being asked in sentence form. i.e. catering to people who don’t necessarily understand web search at the expense of those who do. Also the amount of name collision will only ever increase as we run out of english words to associate with new projects (and products, commercially). I was trying to search the topic of phasmophobia recently only to realize that a game had apparently come out using that terminology as its own title, flooding the result of any search with SEO’d game material.

   • Tomat0 (tomat0@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 12:07:02 JST Tomat0

     What is it with FOSS projects and having the most unsearchable names possible?

     You'll have a project like Element where doing any sort of looking up yields you everything else named Element.