Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

December 27, 2013

Naming Software?

Filed under: Names,Software — Patrick Durusau @ 4:20 pm

When you are naming software, please do not use UPPERCASE letters to distinguish your software from another name.

Why?

Because the income generating imitations of search engines regularize case, even if the terms are double quoted.

Thus, if I search for TWITter*, the first hit, (drum roll) will be: “twitter.com”

Which If I have gone to the trouble of double quoting the text, very likely isn’t what I am looking for.

Choose what you think is a good name for your software but if you want people to find it, don’t be clever with case as though it makes a difference.

*TWITer: I don’t know if this is the name of a real project or not. If it is, my apologies.

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