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It is though. Search is about providing the highest likelihood of the desired result, not matching words, at least in one value space. If most people searching
by jib 11y ago
It is though. Search is about providing the highest likelihood of the desired result, not matching words, at least in one value space.
If most people searching for "goat" want to know what the word means in slang, that should be the top result. Possibly you could argue that you want a personal search profile that knows you value Wikipedia higher than other links, but for the default case it feels like optimising for highest odds of success makes sense.
- vonklaus 11y agoThe default case is that everyone has a "search profile" but it is made by google and applied to abstracted parameters. Everyone wants a "search profile" except they would like to control it and how it is applied as it is, for most people, their most important interaction with a computer, e.g. how they access information. Currently, in some respects, that is out of a single silo or set of balkanized silos. This will not be true in the future. One place can not dictate information flow for world. Plus, Alphabet has better things to do