A note on product names
Developers and software companies: When you're working on a product, please please pretty please with sugar on top don't give the product a generic name. It makes googling for support much more difficult than it should be.
Yes, I'm looking at you, "Mail" and "Evolution."
The standard practice on Mac boards and blogs of de-generifying Mail by calling it Mail.app is a rational response, but is so much teh ugly, and wouldn't be necessary if Apple could just have come up with some other name; even something dipsticky like (gag) iMail would be an improvement when it comes to mining the google fields.
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Posted by Nic Lindh at May 17, 2004 09:09 PM | TrackBackWhat's generic about Evolution? The app doesn't make or provide "evolution" does it?
Isn't Microsoft the worst perpetrator of this? Can you get more generic than "Windows Media Player"?
Posted by: at May 21, 2004 03:52 PM"Generic" as in, has other meanings and thus is hard to Google for. "Evolution" is a catchy name, but has to be qualified in Google searches, and it adds a layer of complexity to figure out which filter terms will yield good results and still separate the chaff.
Hence the frustration.
Posted by: Nic Lindh at May 21, 2004 05:59 PMhttp://techgoesboom.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/221
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