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Because they're an advertising company. And more transparent permissions will get in the way of advertising.
by theseatoms 11y ago
Because they're an advertising company. And more transparent permissions will get in the way of advertising.
- maxerickson 11y agoI doubt it is even anything like that, I expect it's just that they know that most of their users will never, ever, use that search feature, so they don't bother with it.
- nitrogen 11y agoIt's just another facet, though. General purpose engines like ElasticSearch can handle that. For that matter, how many people use site: or filetype: in their Google web searches, and yet those features exist?
- nemothekid 11y agoI'd assume Google isn't doing it because no one at Google cares enough to implement such a feature. Features like site: and filetype: are over 10 years old, and I'm sure site: predates Google's IPO from when they were still figuring out how to monetize. Infact, I wonder how many new search operators Google has even added in th epast 10 years.
- habitue 11y agoThis is pretty lazy reasoning. This argument is so general it could apply to any company doing anything people don't like.