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when I enter something, I expect to see what other people search for, not "what people search for, except...", this talk about suggestion algos has nothing to d
by gear54rus 8y ago
when I enter something, I expect to see what other people search for, not "what people search for, except...", this talk about suggestion algos has nothing to do with the issue I think
- dorchadas 8y agoWhen I enter something, I want to see what's relevant to me, not what other people searched for. As such, it makes sense to not suggest anything when I type in 'Muslims are', as Google doesn't know what I want to see yet; it could decide that once I started typing in more strings on the next word. It'd make more sense to me if, instead of completing search queries, it just completed individual words in the queries.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> when I enter something, I expect to see what other people search for That's never been the point, though it's sometimes been an implementation method because it's easy: the point is to provide a useful guess of what you might be searching for. Some search engines do provide tools for exploring patterns of other people's searches, but recommendation systems have never been that except as a matter of leaky implementation details.
- gear54rus 8y agoit was just an example, you can choose another if you think it's more appropriate, my point is that this idiotic censorship has no place in search if it has something to show me regarding my search (and it certainly does), it must