I decided to do a little photoshop work in case there was enough of a
consensus at some point in the near future to get the ball rolling.
Gavin
On 8/28/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
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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).
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> The only thing that matters is the first 10-12 hits on the first page.
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> Joshua D. Drake
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