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Riot is now Element

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550 points J_tt | 2 comments | 15 Jul 20 07:07 UTC | HN request time: 4.041s | source
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shash7 ◴[15 Jul 20 07:43 UTC] No.23842378[source]▶
Do these people care about search results? With a name like that, most people will have a difficult time searching for element related stuff.
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1. hellofunk ◴[15 Jul 20 10:36 UTC] No.23843388[source]▶
It doesn’t matter. For example, another very common dictionary word is “Apple“.
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2. jeffhuys ◴[15 Jul 20 10:42 UTC] No.23843426[source]▶
Sure, but Apple started before the internet (became big). When Google started, "Apple" probably brought up Apple Computers in the first few results.

Starting out with a common word that already has close to a billion results on Google requires a lot more effort.