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Got a link? Pi is suitably as to make search engines questionable

For the future, adding the related concepts/themes around hard to search for terms tend to do the trick. Instead of searching "go" for example, do "go programming language". Or instead of "pi", do "pi agent" or even "pi llm".

While this is a generally useful suggestion you are giving, for Go in specific you can just use "golang".

All of the major search engines have understood that as a stand-in for "Go the programming language" for many years.

Yeah. That is a sore point.

It has overridden a 4000 year old strategy board game played by millions (mostly Asians).

"golang" is literally "Go language". Doesn't matter that it's one word.

Why should the default be for me to guess in a search engine more expertly when someone is referencing a program as a suggestion instead of for them to be more explicit? I get it for things that dont live on the web but if you are going to say you replaced some program with another program the default should really be to link it especially when the name is two common characters in a common order or it is opensource imo...

> Why should the default be for me

It doesn't have to be, of course. But if you're bothered by something in general in life, and there are two approaches to solving the problem, one that involves others doing the "right thing", or another that involves you changing your approach to it, then usually the latter is much easier to actually address, than the former, as it relies on changing the behaviour of a ton of people.

It's just a tip to make things easier for yourself, without needing others to change. Still, you can do things however you like to, no one is forced to do anything :)

Exactly this! This is absolutely a generational problem, and it's scary to witness the total lack of common sense or ability to figure things out on their own. Non-thinkers. The future is doomed.

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