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"Google started this really annoying habit of including results that don't have the words you are searching." Queried a one word string that is probably in hun
by aplorbust 9y ago
"Google started this really annoying habit of including results that don't have the words you are searching."
Queried a one word string that is probably in hundreds of pages.
Got 5 bogus results.
On the plus side, I noticed ddg has apparently fixed an issue they used to have with prefixing result urls with a ddg proxy url, as other search engines are known to do.
To disable this, previously the user had to turn on Javascript. I never use Javascript, and I got the urls unprefixed, as they should be.
search: test2 (no quotes)
23 results
15 had test2 inurl
3 had test2 intitle
0 had test2 inpage
5 were not found inurl, intitle or elsewhere
see below
1. http://www.test.com/
2. https://dndprojects.anheuser-busch.com/mobile
3. https://www.icardnet.uillinois.edu/public/
4. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:/dmv_content_en/dmv/pubs/interactive/tdrive/clc3written?lang=en
5. https://test.salesforce.com/
cname is "test.l2.salesforce.com"
Some thoughts from a search engine author:
"For most popular subjects, a simple text matching search that is restricted to web page titles performs admirably when PageRank prioritizes the results (demo available at google.stanford.edu). For the type of full text searches in the main Google system, PageRank also helps a great deal.
"Our compact encoding uses two bytes for every hit. There are two types of hits: fancy hits and plain hits. Fancy hits include hits occurring in a URL, title, anchor text, or meta tag. Plain hits include everything else."
"We chose a compromise between these options, keeping two sets of inverted barrels -- one set for hit lists which include title or anchor hits and another set for all hit lists. This way, we check the first set of barrels first and if there are not enough matches within those barrels we check the larger ones."
"Google considers each hit to be one of several different types (title, anchor, URL, plain text large font, plain text small font, ...), each of which has its own type-weight."
source: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
Would the above one word search for text2 perform "admirably" if it only examined title, meta tags and url?
Popular searches, fancy hits, type-weight, ranking.
And then there is everything else.
- hedora 9y agoYears ago, but years after they launched, I heard they hired a large number (100s? 1000s?) of editors to manually tweak page ranks. Basically, page rank is easy to game and doesn’t really work anymore.