Vercel acquires Grep

The domain well represents what it does, and there are plenty of grep.* TLDs still to choose from should GNU want them. ;)

Scummy, but it also seems pretty stupid. You need extremely specific search terms to find any pages about this app rather than about real grep. Like, if you're making a search app and the first page of web search results for "<app name> search" doesn't find it, it's not a good name.

I wouldn't say scummy so much as just short sighted and selfish. I can see someone excitedly naming something after something similar, as homages are made all the time, and not stopping to think whether it's just polluting the namespace.

grep.app searches repository content across repositories, github.com doesn't seem to do this at all (unless they are hiding it well). IMO, github could have bought it themselves to improve their search, but that didn't have seemed to worked out.

As an occasional user of grep.app I hope that Vercel keeps it running and doesn't ruin it in some way.