I’ve heard this street name objection a few times (from Kaleem also) and it doesn’t make sense to me. Locations are named after the same thing extremely frequently!! Google “Kirkland House.” You find Kirkland House. Kirkland Street, about half a mile away, does not come up. Google “Quincy House.” You find Quincy House, not Quincy Street, which is even closer. I have never heard of somebody looking for Kirkland House or Quincy House winding up on Kirkland Street or Quincy Street instead. People do not get confused because Dunster House is not on Dunster Street, nor because Eliot House is not on Eliot Street. Nearby things are named after common namesakes all the time. The Charles Hotel and The Charles River do not mess up each other’s SEO. This seems like very strong evidence that this will not happen if we name it Prospect when there’s also a Prospect Street!
“lightcone ea” → other lightcone groups first, though it does get mentioned (not linked) on first page
“lightcone berkeley” → 3rd option
“lightcone longtermism” → ding ding ding
“lightcone infrastructure” → ding ding ding
and i think lightcone is a great name! so we’ll probably have problems w/ SEO but also if it’s not something that could draw in newbies (“will macaskill”, “ea” (oof, still can’t beat Electronic Arts), or “precipice book”) we probably shouldn’t axe a decent name because of that.
I’ve heard this street name objection a few times (from Kaleem also) and it doesn’t make sense to me. Locations are named after the same thing extremely frequently!! Google “Kirkland House.” You find Kirkland House. Kirkland Street, about half a mile away, does not come up. Google “Quincy House.” You find Quincy House, not Quincy Street, which is even closer. I have never heard of somebody looking for Kirkland House or Quincy House winding up on Kirkland Street or Quincy Street instead. People do not get confused because Dunster House is not on Dunster Street, nor because Eliot House is not on Eliot Street. Nearby things are named after common namesakes all the time. The Charles Hotel and The Charles River do not mess up each other’s SEO. This seems like very strong evidence that this will not happen if we name it Prospect when there’s also a Prospect Street!
yeah, if there are secondary filter words, seems fine. though harvard houses have the advantage of notoriety
quick non-exhaustive duckduckgoing (less google optimization)
“prospect harvard” → https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/prospect/ and https://psll.bwh.harvard.edu/prospect/
“prospect harvard square” → no strong signal. SEO friendly.
“prospect cambridge” → cambridge dictionary and prospect st stuff.
“prospect office” → location dependent w/ collisions in NYC but not many in Boston (tho some dental offices)
“prospect office cambridge” → dental group, other misc stuff. SEO friendly.
but probably closer to the question of “does it matter” is to do the same searches w/ lightcone
“lightcone” → wiki for light cone, other stuff
“lightcone offices” OR organization OR company → https://lightcone.org/en, https://lightcone.com/, etc. but it does show up! (including this because they seem like likely guesses at a second word)
“lightcone ea” → other lightcone groups first, though it does get mentioned (not linked) on first page
“lightcone berkeley” → 3rd option
“lightcone longtermism” → ding ding ding
“lightcone infrastructure” → ding ding ding
and i think lightcone is a great name! so we’ll probably have problems w/ SEO but also if it’s not something that could draw in newbies (“will macaskill”, “ea” (oof, still can’t beat Electronic Arts), or “precipice book”) we probably shouldn’t axe a decent name because of that.
Yeah, I guess it’s not clear how important SEO is. We can also just tell people the address!