Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)

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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@decibel.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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