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They didn't say "web search", they said "search". Nearly every website has a search box. Most of my searches in any given day are not on Google - they're on Ama

They didn't say "web search", they said "search". Nearly every website has a search box. Most of my searches in any given day are not on Google - they're on Amazon, Wikipedia, Netflix, StackOverflow, Facebook, etc. Bing's toolbar is watching all of those.

rbanffy 16y ago
Most of the searches I do are on the firefox search field. If I want to search within a specific site, I use the "site:" parameter to restrict results by domain.
- endtime 16y ago
  The number of people who use that feature is not of statistical significance.
  - nowarninglabel 16y ago
    And your data showing is....where? I can of course say, I use this feature, and of course point to others who do, but I don't have data to say it is significant. However, you have stipulated it is not, but have not provided any data to prove it.
    - endtime 16y ago
      I don't have any data showing that, but come on. Think about alllll the people out there who log into Facebook by Googling "www.facebook.com". That's your average internet user, not you and me.
      - nowarninglabel 16y ago
        I'm not sure how much you interact with the "average internet user", but when I do help desk roles, as well as my role working for a floating university, I interact with hundreds of non-technical end users (Given my job history, I've interacted with thousands over the years). What I can tell you is that basing any theory about statistical anomalies on your preconceived notions without any hard data to back it up is usually an exercise in failure.
        endtime 16y ago
        And how many of the people you talk to do you think use the site: operator?
      - rbanffy 16y ago
        And those are supposed to use site-provided search boxes for specific content?
joshu 16y ago
you realize they have to have some system for figuring out which GET parameter matches the search box? there are lots of sites that have varying GET parameters. so that means someone had to decide, BY HAND, what parameter was the right one. there's no way they are just magically doing this for "every" search box on the web.

rbanffy 16y ago

Most of the searches I do are on the firefox search field. If I want to search within a specific site, I use the "site:" parameter to restrict results by domain.

endtime 16y ago
The number of people who use that feature is not of statistical significance.
- nowarninglabel 16y ago
  And your data showing is....where? I can of course say, I use this feature, and of course point to others who do, but I don't have data to say it is significant. However, you have stipulated it is not, but have not provided any data to prove it.
  - endtime 16y ago
    I don't have any data showing that, but come on. Think about alllll the people out there who log into Facebook by Googling "www.facebook.com". That's your average internet user, not you and me.
    - nowarninglabel 16y ago
      I'm not sure how much you interact with the "average internet user", but when I do help desk roles, as well as my role working for a floating university, I interact with hundreds of non-technical end users (Given my job history, I've interacted with thousands over the years). What I can tell you is that basing any theory about statistical anomalies on your preconceived notions without any hard data to back it up is usually an exercise in failure.
      - endtime 16y ago
        And how many of the people you talk to do you think use the site: operator?
    - rbanffy 16y ago
      And those are supposed to use site-provided search boxes for specific content?

joshu 16y ago

you realize they have to have some system for figuring out which GET parameter matches the search box? there are lots of sites that have varying GET parameters. so that means someone had to decide, BY HAND, what parameter was the right one. there's no way they are just magically doing this for "every" search box on the web.