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Happened to me not ten minutes ago with the search string "pass json body to spring mvc" The efreedom answer at the 5th position is actually the most relevant
by lukev 16y ago
Happened to me not ten minutes ago with the search string "pass json body to spring mvc"
The efreedom answer at the 5th position is actually the most relevant - the stackoverflow question from which it was copied doesn't even show up on the first page. There is one stackoverflow result on the first page, but it deals with a more complex related issue, not the simple question I was looking for.
- magicalist 16y agoto be completely fair, the very first link (from the official springsource blog) also appears to answer your question.
- lukev 16y agoTrue, it does... I just noticed this because I've actually got in the habit of scanning for stackoverflow results, first - they almost always are right on the money, and it's less cognitive overhead to read a site format I'm familiar with, with extraneous discussion well tucked-away. It almost feels like a cache miss when I have to drop down to the official site/documentation, since that typically requires a greater time investment to read through to find the relevant sections. I guess that's a tribute to how well stackoverflow works, most the time. And also to how lazy I am.
- Matt_Cutts 16y agoThanks for the concrete query--I'm happy to ping the indexing team to make sure it's not tickling any unusual bugs or coverage issues. Jeff's original blog post helped us uncover a few of those things to improve.
- stanleydrew 16y agoIf you're looking for SO results why not use 'site:stackoverflow.com'? That would clear out everything else.
- gregable 16y agoIn Google's most recent cache, the efreedom result has the word "pass" on the page due to some related links content near the bottom, whereas the stackoverflow page does not. If you modify your query to [parse json body to spring mvc], stackoverflow is at position #1, and efreedom is at position #4. This still has room for improvement, but it would seem like the simplest explanation is just the better match on your query terms.
- lukev 16y agoDidn't notice that - that's good to know. That's actually exactly how I'd expect a good search engine to behave. As annoyed as I am when I get a junk result, I'd be even more pissed if Google dropped terms from my query just so it can return a more popular site. Of course, then all the content-copy farms will respond by copying valid content plus word lists - hopefully Google knows how to detect that.