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No, the main reason I know about is that advanced operators are more resource intensive than regular queries. Not blocking these would affect search for everybo
by puzzle 8y ago
No, the main reason I know about is that advanced operators are more resource intensive than regular queries. Not blocking these would affect search for everybody else.
That, of course, also tends to take care of spammers, malware as you described and just plain buggy bots. Those can be tackled with additional measures, but first and foremost Google cares about search latency. (And quality: higher latency reduces quality, too.)
- userbinator 8y agoAnd quality: higher latency reduces quality, too Ridiculous. I'd rather wait longer for better results. Even in the real world there is a correspondingly analogous saying: "Think carefully before you open your mouth."
- puzzle 8y agoYou're right, in theory, but that's not how things work in reality at scale. Remember that every search query propagates through at least a thousand machines.
- zozbot123 8y agoThese days I have to wait longer simply because of Google's "auto-search" functionality and their heavy use of JS. It's like it's trying to guess what I want to see before I'm even done inputing a search query-- which I'm sure is very convenient for novices, not so much if you're a power user and looking for something specific. Other search engines (Bing, DDG) don't have this problem, of course. I think Google have just stopped even trying to maintain their "flagship" Search service - that the only way I could explain how their search quality and website responsiveness could decline to the level of the old Yahoo.com and Altavista. And don't get me started about the sorry state of their Google Groups archive...