Someone decided to call a software "informatica".

A british recruiter was quite insistent to have a call… turns out because she read "informatica" on my profile (as in, laurea in informatica), asked me how many years of experience I had with the tool, I replied "I just heard of it 2 minutes ago when you first mentioned it". Then got mad at me for having written the word "informatica" on my profile.

Well, they do have the .com domain, so maybe an exception applies here.

Sometimes I wonder if Microsoft was actually on to something with their naming scheme.

Something like “Kagi vector search for databases” at least doesn’t leave anything up for misinterpretation.

I prefer it to, say, vectr (such contractions used to be popular) or 'barbershop' or a similar single irrelevant word name as is popular now.

Att least with barbershop it becomes much more searchable. "barbershop db" will very likely succeed.

Good point. It trades off searchability with understanding (or getting an indication of) what it is when you first hear of it.

I think there's two ways to name things and I think the cattle or pet metaphor is useful here.

If the typical user will use the thing once and then forget about it or if they are not going to keep it in mind very often make sure to give it a descriptive name.

But for some things having a descriptive name might not be the most important aspect of its name. Having a findable or memorable name might be more important. And maybe sometimes giving it a descriptive name might actually become a problem because its function might change over time.