Re: [Om-synth] The name. Again.

[grae]

On 6/2/06, Dave Robillard <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:45 -0500, grae wrote:
> > Just to ensure clarity.  You are right that it (google) makes the
> > potential correction after 3 results, but after 3 "Maude" results it
> > goes back to the original "Maud" results, for which there are many
> > pages.
> >
> > And for the sake of it, I always thought Om was kind of cool, and I
> > think you'd find it difficult to find many people around here that
> > thought the opposite.  I often think sillyness of the things I come up
> > with, even when no one ever gives me reason to think so.
> > Self-perception's a bitch....at least for me anyway ;)
>
> (Again, I hate nagging but please don't top-post on this list, you've
> wrecked this thread twice now.  Post your replies BELOW what you are
> replying to, thanks)

ok my apologies.  In gmail I don't have the problem that you speak of
so I never realized what you meant by the "top-post"ing  thing.  Gmail
creates it's own thread of emails that share the subject line  (yikes,
I just about did it again in this post :(  )

> The _top_ 3 Maud results contain some random lady's blog and an antique
> shop :).   Om will have no problem whatsoever getting on the first page
> (probably #1).  The fact that there are a lot of results means nothing.
> People often use the "number of google" hits metric to decide if a name
> is good or not, but that's ignorant of how google actually works.
> Anything more "relevant" in terms of linking will be above the sea of
> crap results noone links to.
>
> That said, it could of course be more unique and thus better.
>
> As for Om the fact that it's qualified in one way or another (eg
> om-synth and "Om") is proof that it needs changing as far as I'm
> concerned.  The only reason the rest of you don't think so is because
> it's not your program so you don't take it personally.  I do.  I'm not
> interested in hearing anything more about that name.  It is gone.
>
> -DR-
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And I see your point about the ranking of the existing pages.  My
ideal search result is "Your search - sadfasdf76asdf896dsafasdfa - did
not match any documents".  But that doesn't mean I'm suggesting
"sadfasdf76asdf896dsafasdfa" as the new name ;)

I wasn't attempting to defend the old name, just sharing my own joy of
self-perception.  I appreciate and have experienced the tremendous
amount of work and resulting attachment in creating a functional piece
of software and I commend you for doing so for this community.  Many
people benefit from your efforts and that's what matters to me.  :)