Re: Ada in polluted WWW searches

[Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>]

Dan'l Miller <optikos@verizon.net> wrote:
> One of the complications of searching for solutions to challenges
> regarding Ada (as well as job postings needing Ada skills & experience)
> is the fact that Ada matches ADA, the initialism for both the Americans
> with Disabilities Act and the American Dental Association.  When
> searching for Ada, a vast treasure trove of topics for the physically
> handicapped and for dental/dentist topics appear in the search results. 
> Ada the programming language is in a distant 3rd place.

Don’t not forget the places in America with the same name, I know of one in
Ohio but there is another somewhere else there.

Or Australian dentists.

> To rectify this, we should assure that every single WWW page and job
> posting (and social-media posting) has Ada83, Ada1983, Ada87, Ada1987,
> Ada9X, Ada95, Ada1995, Ada2005, Ada2007, Ada2012, Ada2020, or Ada202X in
> it somewhere, so that people can find it without needing to search for only Ada.

There’s not that many of them, tbh.


> The Go community combats this problem via referring to their language as
> Golang.  Dart community likewise frequently refers to Dartlang.  Instead
> of contriving Adalang, we can can all resolve today to switch to
> utilizing non-colliding names for Ada that are already in daily usage in
> the Ada community ••at least once•• per WWW page, job posting, or social
> media posting instead of merely “Ada” nearly all the time.
> 

Good luck getting recruitment agents doing that.