the problem with the name Ada when doing internet searches

the problem with the name Ada when doing internet searches

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

whenever I search for something relating Ada, I seem to always hit
"The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)" instead.

I am tried of this. Is there a way around this? How does one
search for our Ada but not the other Ada?

And why did we let them use the name Ada? Ada the language
was there before (1980 vs 1990).

Now even schools and courses web sites are adding the
"The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)" statement on many
things. So it is becoming even harder to search for anything
relating to Ada the language.

We need to find a solution to this problem.

--Nasser

Re: the problem with the name Ada when doing internet searches

[Patrick]

I usually search ada programming or ada language

Re: the problem with the name Ada when doing internet searches

[Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)]

Le Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:51:58 +0200, Patrick  
<patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> a écrit:

> I usually search ada programming or ada language

Alternatively, there exist a dedicated search engine, whose purpose is  
specifically to workaround that issue:
http://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/ada-on-the-web/


-- 
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University

Re: the problem with the name Ada when doing internet searches

[Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)]

Le Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:44:08 +0200, Nasser M. Abbasi <nma@12000.org> a  
écrit:

> whenever I search for something relating Ada, I seem to always hit
> "The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)" instead.

Funny enough to note, C, although its name is a single letter long, does  
not suffer from this: type “C” in Google, and you will get Wikipedia's  
page about the C programming language, directly, with no interleaving  
garbages. The same with google.fr

-- 
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University

Re: the problem with the name Ada when doing internet searches

[Randy Brukardt]

"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote in message 
news:k046cc$qbr$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> whenever I search for something relating Ada, I seem to always hit
> "The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)" instead.
>
> I am tried of this. Is there a way around this? How does one
> search for our Ada but not the other Ada?

Use the Ada-wide search engine. It indexes just sites known to be related to 
the Ada language (essentially those in the AdaIC indexes). See 
http://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/ada-on-the-web/ for the search page.

(This search engine is 100% Ada code, both the crawler and the program that 
responds to queries.) I rerun the indexes about every 2-3 weeks - it's 
running right now, in fact.

                                Randy Brukardt.