Most people I know, including myself, refer to it as godbolt and not compiler explorer.

I didn’t know it was hosted anywhere other than godbolt.org

Funny enough, he has talked about this exact problem on his podcast “Two’s complement”; Specifically the episode “The future of compiler explorer”. Commenters below are correct that it’s just about how heavily associated his name is with the tool. I just figured I’d also drop this source here because he has a lot of interesting things to say about his involvement with the project

For anyone else wanting to listen to the episode, this site worked well for me:

https://podtail.com/en/podcast/two-s-complement/the-future-o...

It does have ads, but they were not too intrusive. Scroll down if there’s an ad on first click and there’s a play button that plays the episode.

For me the ads it showed were only text and images, not audio interrupting ads.

You can also listen to it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QXo5c7cUKQ

But since it’s audio only, I preferred listening to it via the aforementioned podcast website.

Because most people colloquially know it as "Godbolt".

The godbolt name is so iconic that at $WORK our locally hosted instance of compiler explorer is under the go/godbolt shortcut.

I had the go/ shortcut at at least two different jobs. Neither was G. But it is possible that xooglers set it up.

what kind of shortcut is this? a file path in your code bases?

When I want to visit Compiler Explorer, I start typing godbolt, then his Enter when the browser brings up the correct item from my History. "compiler-explorer.com" is also much longer (if you want to type out the whole things).