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Ask HN: Why doesn't Google show me what I'm searching for?
I am doing a search on Google and I do not understand why it recommends the first hit when the first link does not even contain the word Ballmer. Please take a look here: http://i.imgur.com/XI8OgU1.png
If I use quotes around the name it will work but why is it returning results that do not contain one of my keywords?
- Cozumel 10y agoBecause as a search engine they're actually incredibly crap? They focus on delivering ads not results.
- turkeyturker 10y ago> they're actually incredibly crap? That's the first I've heard although based on these search results I'm inclined to agree. Curious, who do you use instead?
- gt565k 10y agoBecause based on your search query, "ballmer" doesn't appear anywhere where "steve" and "bipolar" terms do. You're getting the best result that's a combination of your fulltext search query terms If you want to include or exclude terms, I think you can use - or + in-front of the word. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
- turkeyturker 10y agoIt does appear, look at the screenshot again at the third result.
- nostrademons 10y agoTry verbatim mode: https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+ballmer+bipolar&tbs=li:1 https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+ballmer+bipolar&tbs=li...
- turkeyturker 10y agoThis seems to be the right idea but even so the result from Thought Economics does not contain one of the keywords.
- nostrademons 10y agoIt appears in the drop-down under "All topics".
- rootme 10y agoaltavista.com
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