Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: Ron Peterson <ron(dot)peterson(at)yellowbank(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
Date: 2007-08-28 23:49:56
Message-ID: 46D4B4A4.80907@commandprompt.com
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Decibel! wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 03:22:50PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
>> 2007-08-28_10:53:41-0400 Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>:
>>
>>> The google hits argument is no reason not to change the name.
>> It is. When people start searching for information using the term
>> "postgres" they will be missing out on the vast majority of available
>> information for years.
>
> Has anyone actually looked at what those 27M PostgreSQL hits are? I'm
> betting that 90% of them are duplicate copies of mailing list traffic.
> If you exclude content generated by us (which doesn't count because we
> can change the name via sed), I'm betting there's just barely 5M web
> pages about us (which would account for all the Postgres hits).

The only thing that matters is the first 10-12 hits on the first page.

Joshua D. Drake

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