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Seriously, I wish each company would use a UUID as an alternate name. Same for each programming language, software project, and so on. The UUID should be on all their web pages.

People who write articles or blogs about them should use the normal name but somewhere should have a table giving the UUIDs of the things they mention.

Then when people are trying to find pages about things with names that are terrible for searching like X or Go they could use the UUID.



This is approximately a description of the GNS pet name system. Also DOIs for scientific articles.




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