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I can't even imagine what went through the head of whoever chose the name of that project. Literally ungoogleable. Congratulations.


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.


I fear for this happening to Europe. Immigrants put an excessive strain on the NHS, for example. One of the talking points of the Leave campaign.


Um... have you not noticed that a large portion of those providing medical care in the NHS are those same immigrants? Immigrants by and large are equal parts of the solution to problems. If you remove them all, you will quickly realise that most of the problems still remain caused by those who will continue to be ungrateful and just blame something and someone else for their problems.


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