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Likewise matching DCP-L2550DW to pages with DCP-L2550BW or something similar. It is so obviously specific a no results answer is better than a misleading one.
by lugg 8y ago
Likewise matching DCP-L2550DW to pages with DCP-L2550BW or something similar. It is so obviously specific a no results answer is better than a misleading one.
I think this is due to people more often than not finding the top page useful regardless which just reinforces the link.
But it's super annoying to find you've just waited for a 300mb download of the wrong driver.
- a1369209993 8y agoI think this is a lot more defensible. Eg (real example) if I search for 74HCT350, I would probably be okay, if not actively happy, to get results for 74ACT350 (a socket-equivalent chip in a somewhat faster logic family). It's much less defensible if "DCP-L2550DW" is quoted, since that's a clear indication that you want the exact string, but it's still better than outright ignoring half your query the way google does.
- nl 8y agoI agree very strongly with this. I don't understand why people complain about having to read the search results. In so many cases slightly different product numbers are equivalent and differ in things like the market they are for, or the color, or something else you may or may not care about. It seems to me that hiding these results required both Google to do mind reading and to decode spec sheets to see if they match what you had in mind.. all from a single string of semi-random characters.