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I still cannot read that name without my brain auto-correcting in the missing "a".

I wish they would change the name to something more distinct from Code Academy.

i've seen the name dozens of times, i've done a dozen or so lessons on their site to try it out, i've told people about it, and this is first i've realized this.

Amazing, I just noticed for the first time, makes you wonder

Same here!!

fwiw my previous comment got 25 votes

I think if anyone were to change name, it'd be the real Code Academy now. About 90% of times I encounter anyone trying to say Codecademy, they say 'Code Academy' and don't believe me when I say they're wrong and that there's another service using that name. That's branding for you.. and they've won the battle.

They also appear to have won the Google battle - the first result for "code academy" (with or without quotes) is Codecademy.

I'm not an SEO expert, but I believe the way it works is persons/entities/companies bid on keywords through Google Adwords. If they win the bid, their site will pop up first or closer to the top.

I always thought Codecademy.com and Codeacademy.org were the same company or at the very least sister companies; somehow related.

> I'm not an SEO expert, but I believe the way it works is persons/entities/companies bid on keywords through Google Adwords. If they win the bid, their site will pop up first or closer to the top.

I think dandelany meant organic results, not sponsored links.

In any case, I didn't receive any ads for "code academy" on Google, so Codecademy's ranking is natural.

Thanks for the clarification.

Codecademy has far more links than code academy (.org) so that's not surprising - also, redirecting CodeAcademy.com may be helping them out.

actually you can just type codeacademy.com with the a. There is auto redirect to the one without the a.

It doesn't change the fact that there is already a Code Academy (.org) in chicago or that when I do a Google search, I have to purposely put in a negative keyword for codecademy for it to accurately get Code Academy, which people end up mixing up anyway.

I genuinely believe the name to be Codecademy and not Code Academy. But overall I wish they'd just change the name period lol.

Whenever I pronounce it, I just say, "Code Cademy, without the 'a'."

this is the correct pronunciation.

Which helped further train my brain on the wrong name, as that's exactly what I've been typing in for a while now.

I get to the right site, but I continue to call their service the wrong name to everyone I talk about it with.

I tend to read it as "Co-Deck-A-Demy"

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