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by nhqt 2699 days ago
I can't even imagine what went through the head of whoever chose the name of that project. Literally ungoogleable. Congratulations.
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They did want to remove all the tracking by Google...
He tried to say that it is a difficult name to find in search engines.
He tried to make a joke
He was just being nice.
Can’t we just enjoy the sarcasm?
Also, don't downvote James Bond from sussex's post, he was just being nice.
He tried to make a joke
It was a joke.
It is the first organic result if you search for '/e/': https://www.google.com/search?&q=%27%2Fe%2F%27

Granted, not how most people would search.

"It's the current project codename, we will probably introduce a new and more convenient name for our mobile ROM in a few months."
I searched "e foundation" on Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing and this was the first result on all of them. Yeah, "/e/" is atrocious, though.
Same with just “e os”. Name is fine.
It is described here: https://www.indidea.org/gael/blog/leaving-apple-and-google-e...

They had to get rid of the trademark Eelo.

All potential jokes around escaping Google aside, searching for it was easier than expected: https://www.google.com/search?q=e+os
e....f....g

Kinda clever if you ask me.