I think we've all learned to speak "google". When you query a search engine you don't speak english. You don't ask (or do you?) "I want articles concerning java

I think we've all learned to speak "google". When you query a search engine you don't speak english. You don't ask (or do you?) "I want articles concerning java on the android platform on the hacker news website". Instead, you say "site:news.ycombinator.com android java". And most of the time I get what I want. Maybe I'm more easily satisfied than most. At any rate, these days it's important to learn this language to effectively use any search engine. You've learned to speak "Google". The majority of the world hasn't. My mom, for example, would search for "how to bake apple pie", rather than "apple pie baking" or any other such set of key terms. In fact, your approach reminds me of the approach that I used with AltaVista (back when it was the premier search engine). The reason I used this approach is because I was taught to do this by one of my teachers. Back then, it was recognized that search engines don't recognize human language and that search queries had to be carefully crafted to return optimal results. Of course, very few people think about that now. No one spends time crafting a search query - they just type their question into the Google box and click search. As Google search results decline in quality we might see a resurrection of the old way of thinking about and crafting search queries to return the optimal result set.