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.
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