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Tech company names in general have completely lost the plot.

Looking ANYTHING up in search engines these days is completely and utterly derailed by tech companies (/programming languages/frameworks/etc) who insist on naming themselves after common words used in everyday language.

Go, Espresso, Vanilla, Box, Square, Stripe, Express, Next, Angular, Feather, Mint, it goes on forever.

Each one insists on branding themselves just with that word, using it on its own and poisoning search results and online content the world over.



I'm pretty sure that is affected by the search engine (google?) knowing enough about you that you're probably interested in programming languages/frameworks.

But having said that I am suddenly hit with the urge to make something popular and useful that I will name something like God, Sex, or Pizza.




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