OpenSearch name: abbreviation?

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You know, that’s a big pet peeve of mine. Ungoogle-able terms in tech are actually a form of gatekeeping.

I remember learning Rust a few years back and trying to pop a few error messages into google and realizing that a ton of the language is just dropped in search engine indexing. Hence terms ‘turbofish’ (::<type>) that people use to make them more google-able. But connecting those symbols to that term is someone has to be told somewhere.

So, terms we create to make things discoverable or google or whatever end up making them less discoverable, especially to folks not ‘in the know’.
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