The opendarwin .com debacle

Jordan K. Hubbard jkh at apple.com
Thu Oct 22 16:17:38 PDT 2009


Maybe it's about putting up the appropriate keywords/tag data for google to find then?  Someone here must know the magic to get MacPorts indexed ahead of dp.com...

On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> The real problem here is one of branding.  Why/where are users even hearing the name "darwinports" when it's been essentially dead for over 3 years?  Projects rename themselves all the time and somehow manage to make the name change stick.  What this project needs to ask itself is why the name change has not stuck as successfully here and then fix that problem rather than re-fighting old battles.
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> Search for "pspp mac" and you'll find dp.com sitting at #4 or #5.  This demonstrates at least one way people are finding it:  searching for the open source project they want and "mac".  In my example, simply searching for "pspp" will not being up dp.com.
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> Macports is nowhere to be found, btw.
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