On: Sugar: An activity-focused, open-source software learning platform for children

[Shorel]

I simply see it as search word-space collision.

In the future, whenever I search for "sugar" I will have to deal with hundreds of unrelated results for a programming language.

I see the same issue with go, d, eclipse, and a few other overloaded words.

This is also the reason why xkcd is such a great name.

[0xEF → Shorel]

Do you search for broad terms like "sugar" a lot? Honest question, since I rarely, if ever, find doing so useful, even when using Google search alternatives. Generally, I am looking for specific information about the subject. If we use edible sugar as our example, I might be looking for "how is cane sugar processed" or "temperature for sugar hard crack stage." Or, if I really want a general overview of something, it's "sugar wikipedia."

[Shorel → 0xEF]

Same as you. I am trained to add Wikipedia or search in another way, because of the namespace conflict.

Even that is not enough, after a while, and more and more words are needed.

Some search engines are better or worse about this.

[defrost → 0xEF]

Try: "sugar human bone char napoleon"

[0xEF → defrost]

I'd heard of this. Disturbing, to say the least, but not something that will frighten me away from the word "sugar" which is the root of this thread. Bone char was also used in paint, but I'm not about to decry the painters of old over it. Our modern alternatives are in place.