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I don't think so. A few years ago, Google worked much better when you knew how to phrase queries. I often helped family members to find something online, just b
by dx034 9y ago
I don't think so. A few years ago, Google worked much better when you knew how to phrase queries. I often helped family members to find something online, just by rephrasing their original query.
Today, it doesn't matter how you build your query, Google returns good results in any case. That also means that you can't search for specific info by phrasing queries differently but for the vast majority of people it makes life much easier.
- brain5ide 9y agoYou have a good point here. However, it would be great if both directions would be maintained. One, with "good enough" results for the common crowd, and another one, with a scalpel sharp ability to dissect it.
- dx034 9y agoIf you can do that at Google's scale I'm sure they'd be happy to hear your proposal. I really doubt Google's engineer wanted to give up the precision (they'll use it for their daily job as well), I just think they couldn't justify the additional resources.
- Dylan16807 9y agoDon't make it sound like a lack of ability. They could keep giving time slices to the old code if they wanted to. And it wouldn't that that many resources, "justified" or not.
- londons_explore 9y agoKeeping old code running within Google is surprisingly hard... Most big services (eg. Google Docs) have entire teams of people who run them (SRE's). Without those people to keep the system going, it would probably break within a few weeks.