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I think part of the problem is that for many people google is the internet. Even for me (pretty technically minded) if a few google searches doesn't find what I
by VBprogrammer 16y ago
I think part of the problem is that for many people google is the internet. Even for me (pretty technically minded) if a few google searches doesn't find what I'm looking for it isn't on the internet, or might as well not be. I don't think I've even tried turning to another search engine in several years.
- squidsoup 16y agoWhich begs the question, are there regions of the web that just simply aren't indexed?
- patrickaljord 16y agoThose that blacklist googlebot on their robots.txt
- mfukar 16y ago...allegedly.
- Matt_Cutts 16y agoAbsolutely there are, despite our efforts. See the bmtcinfo.com example mentioned elsewhere on this page. But normally there's a good reason if we don't have a page, e.g. bmtcinfo.com returns an error unless you add a "www" in front of it.
- Matt_Cutts 16y agoIt's tricky. Google gets well over 1B searches a day. And each week, 1B users search on Google. Most of those searchers aren't as savvy as HN folks. They do things like misspell ~10% of queries, not to mention searching in weird ways. Only one double-quote in the query? How should we interpret that? So Google has power search operators and we introduce new tools like the left-hand side searching tools, but we also have to try to be accessible for the folks that aren't that tech-savvy.
- s3graham 16y ago> Only one double-quote in the query? How should we interpret that? My vote: "Syntax error on line 1" with no further hints. ;)
- thaumaturgy 16y ago...but I would just Google tha-- oh.