# Why a non Google friendly product name?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [November 22, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872 "2018-11-22T16:56:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Zach\_Christensen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Zach_Christensen)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/21 "2018-11-23T00:31:58Z")
Nosferatu, it has all the elegance and beauty that encompasses the languageš
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### Author:  [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/22 "2018-11-23T00:47:42Z")
š love it
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### Author:  [@Nosferican](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nosferican)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/23 "2018-11-23T01:49:17Z")
As my handle is Nosferican, I approve of Nosferatuā¦ I have been teased at work because I am always with Julia and someone asks and they tell them is my gf and then naā the languageā¦
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### Author:  [@baggepinnen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/baggepinnen)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/24 "2018-11-23T04:54:16Z")
Whenever I look for code explicitly, I always try to append the search with `github` This way you more or less only find repositories in your search
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### Author:  [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/25 "2018-11-23T07:22:08Z")
Yes to me that is also the most unfortunate side effect - all the way from my wife complaining that in yet another weekend Iāve spent more time with Julia than with her, or colleagues asking me why I have a sticker with the name of my PhD student on my laptopā¦
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### Author:  [@floswald](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/floswald)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/26 "2018-11-23T09:18:18Z")
Not my problem, since my wife shares the name with this beautiful language. I wonāt forget that question mark on my advisorās face, however, when I said āI canāt build juliaā in answer to his question āhowās the project goingā.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/27 "2018-11-23T09:25:45Z")
> [@mkborregaard](#):
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> a sticker
Incidentally, where can one get stickers? Possibly in Europe, to avoid the whole shipping-customs hassle.
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### Author:  [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/28 "2018-11-23T09:29:07Z")
I got mine from pkofod. Otherwise apparently the approach is to email Viral and Jeff directly š® [Slack](https://julialang.slack.com/archives/C680MM7D4/p1542824311694200)
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### Author:  [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/29 "2018-11-23T09:33:15Z")
I asked a colleague from a different institution whoād expressed interest in the language āare you making any headway with Julia?ā and his jaw dropped, but then he stuttered āeh, actually, yesā. It turned out that a few days before heād asked his girlfriend, named Julia, to marry him. It took like 5-10 full minutes before we realized the mistake.
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### Author:  [@floswald](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/floswald)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/30 "2018-11-23T09:34:33Z")
Itās a great name for a programming language.
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### Author:  [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/31 "2018-11-23T09:36:11Z")
Avik was kind enough to send some over to me from London.
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### Author:  [@pkofod](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pkofod)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/32 "2018-11-23T12:17:03Z")
> [@mkborregaard](#):
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> I got mine from pkofod.
I still have quite a few, I could send you some @Tamas_Papp .
For what itās worth, I like the name. As someone mentioned above, youād get a lot of facebook and linkedin hits for Julia Langās 2-3 years ago, but that is mostly gone now.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/33 "2018-11-23T12:36:43Z")
I think the premise of the question is invalid: with the correct search terms, it is easy to make most of the returned results about Julia. Some quick exploration confirms this (relevant hits/total, totals vary because of search engine heuristics and offered images/videos I guess):
| | Google | DuckDuckGo | Bing |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `julia language` | 9/9 | 10/10 | 8/8 |
| `julia lang` | 6/7 | 7/10 | 7/10 |
| `fft jl` | 10/10 | 10/10 | 9/10 |
YMMV, but these are very good signal/noise ratios.
> [@Class](#):
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> But the product name āJuliaā will most likely just maximize the white noise in the results.
Next time please kindly take a minute to check before proposing such a major change.
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### Author:  [@mohamed82008](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mohamed82008)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-a-non-google-friendly-product-name/17872/34 "2018-11-23T12:50:09Z")
> [@Class](#):
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> And that starts with the name.
I donāt think anyone uses a programming language because it has a fancy name. When you have a baby, you choose its name, others donāt necessarily get to vote š
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