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    Horrible Taylor Swift puns in Swift development 
    considered harmful.

It's already been done[1], it makes your project completely un-Googleable, and it also pollutes the search corpus making it harder for automatons to weed out Taylor Swift stories even when searching for things like "Swift compiler intermediate representation".

Please stop!

[1]: https://github.com/izqui/Taylor

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Someone slept though their humor class.

Try this -> :)

As a go player, I had the same problem when google has created the go language.

Try with baduk :)

This is a problem with Google, not with the names.

That doesn't really seem likely, since it's also a problem with every single other automated search engine in the world.

Names are important; names are famously hard[1].

When I was young, I was a member of a band named Fuck You Asshole. Was that a problem with conversation, not with the band name?

[1]: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096

It's a problem of recognising context. Current technology is not very good at this. What would be nice to have is automatic disambiguation - taking fdej's example, when searching for "Taylor shift", a search engine could ask "Did you mean Taylor Swift, or do you want to shift polynomials?".

Other possible examples: "bat" (flying animals or sports equipment?), "rock" (stones, music, or maybe both? :P), "minute" (60 seconds, report, or something extremely small?). In all of these cases, the software can't tell the meanings apart very well yet. That's a problem with the software.

duckduckgo does exactly that - it lists all the possible interpretations across the top of the results page, plus a list of likely matches (based on statistics I suppose). Try searching for 'polish' which could mean making shoes shiny, or central European people.

No deliberate puns required. As a computer algebraist, it bothers me that "Taylor shift" is un-Googleable.

Why stop? Maybe it is google that should implement something like ':technology' area searches.

There's also Tailor:

https://github.com/sleekbyte/tailor

    Lack of humour considered harmful.

maybe un-Googleable but social-mediable as the pun increases visibility when the sharing and voting mechanism is involved.

So it's like a captcha for index/retrieval, interesting. A purely cultural robots.txt reimplementation that extends the index invisibility cloak even to mentions on third party sites!

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