[incepted]

How about C?

Or a language with meta characters in it, such as C++?

Obviously, these two languages are popular now so they are the first hit but you can bet in the early days of the web, it was a bit different.

I understand your point, though, whenever I create a project, I do my best to pick a unique name for that very reason, but overall, history tends to indicate that such decision will not prevent a good product from becoming popular.

[Retra]

Google didn't exist when C and C++ became popular, so naturally it had no effect on their popularity. But you can't say that new languages don't suffer from those problems, because newer languages so rarely reach the level of popularity of C/C++, even when they have easy to search names.