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Don't forget their awful, automatic broadmatching for organic results. Today I was searching for "(vendor name) promo code" And back came results about progra
by danilocampos 16y ago
Don't forget their awful, automatic broadmatching for organic results.
Today I was searching for "(vendor name) promo code"
And back came results about programming. Because code, when not a noun, is a verb for "to program." It's just awful. Sometimes getting no results is more useful than getting broader results that I need to parse just to establish I'm not going to find what I'm searching for.
- magicalist 16y agowell I'm not going to call you wrong, because I don't know the vendor you were searching for, but in trying several different vendors it seems that google is automatically looking for both "promo" and "promotion", and it's hard to tell, but maybe "coupon" as well. in any case, it's clear google doesn't think I'm looking for source code.
- ryanwanger 16y agoIf you let google personalize your results, then this probably happened because "code" usually means programming...for you.