[Swizec]

It's a filter bubble issue. When I first started Ruby, it had been popular for 10+ years already. Many articles.

Despite that, it was still impossible to search for. Look for Ruby, get gemstones. Look for gem, get even more gemstones. Eventually Google figured it out and now it's almost impossible to search for gemstones. If I search for gem almost all search results are about Ruby things. Same when searching for Ruby.

Even "rails" now returns almost only Ruby on Rails stuff.

[komali2]

Have you tried searching when logged out of google? I'd imagine a rail worker searching lots of train stuff would generally get the right results when they searched on their account.

But yea, worth bearing in mind when naming stuff.

[true_religion]

Perhaps, but under incognito I still get Ruby on rails if I search for "rails". I do get train info if I search for "rail".

[flavor8]

Try the same searches from an incognito window. It could just be that Google learned what Ruby you are searching for.

[vidarh]

I just did:

1. Download Ruby

2. Ruby entry on wikipedia (about the gemstone)

All the rest on the first page are about the programming language in some way or the other (Rails, various books, various tutorial resources, Stackoverflow, trending on Github)