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This is interesting. Part of the problem is answering questions when there's not much content on the web. I think a lot of the job sites showed up because Walma
by Matt_Cutts 16y ago
This is interesting. Part of the problem is answering questions when there's not much content on the web. I think a lot of the job sites showed up because Walmart is hiring for that location in preparation for opening.
I'm just now testing this query, but when I did [fallston md walmart], there is a really comprehensive article at http://www.exploreharford.com/news/3074/work-start-fallston-walmart/ http://www.exploreharford.com/news/3074/work-start-fallston-... that shows up at #5. That article mentions that "The new road will lead into a 147,465-square-foot Walmart, which has been planned with a possible 57,628-square-foot expansion" Then I did the search [walmart supercenter size square feet]. The #1 and #2 results are both pretty good, e.g. the page at http://walmartstores.com/aboutus/7606.aspx http://walmartstores.com/aboutus/7606.aspx says that an average store is 108K square feet, and supercenters average 185K square feet.
As a human, I can deduce that 147K square feet (with 57K square feet of potential expansion) implies that it will probably be a supercenter, but it's practically impossible for a search engine to figure out this sort of multi-step computation right now. My guess is that in a couple months when the store opens up, this information will be more findable on the web--for example, somewhere on Walmart's web site. But for now, this is a really hard search because there's just not much info on the web.
I appreciate you sharing this search. I think it's a pretty fair illustration of how peoples' expectations of Google have grown exponentially over the years. :)