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I wouldn't say it's better than Google - it's a bit worse for non-English queries, and similar for English ones. Both have in common that if they don't know th

I wouldn't say it's better than Google - it's a bit worse for non-English queries, and similar for English ones. Both have in common that if they don't know the answer to your query, they assume they know better than you and give you unrelated results. I'd prefer if they'd just print "Can't find anything" and let me tweak my query instead of sending back random results.

gradys 8y ago
It's difficult in general to know that the results you're returning are definitely not what the user wants. You're not seeing them think that they know better than you, you're seeing lower confidence results. Perhaps search engines could just not show you lower confidence results, but then you risk making it impossible to find certains kinds of content, and you forgo the rarer, but still extant wins, you get from showing those results. Users can generally tell when results aren't relevant and will reformulate anyway.