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I tried some queries for Harry Potter fanfictions, and the results were pretty much completely unrelated. There weren’t that many results, either.
by Siira 5y ago
I tried some queries for Harry Potter fanfictions, and the results were pretty much completely unrelated. There weren’t that many results, either.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI'm curious what you searched for. https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=harry+potter+fanfiction&profile=default https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=harry+potter+fanfi... This seems to return a pretty decent number of sites relating to that (as well as some sites not relating to that). The search engine isn't always great at knowing what a page is about, unfortunately. This seemed to return mostly relevant results https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=%22harry+potter%22+fanfiction&profile=default https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=%22harry+potter%22...
- Siira 5y agoYes, shorter queries return more relevant results. I think this was the first query that came to my mind: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=Best+%22harry+potter%22+fanfictions&profile=default https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=Best+%22harry+pott...
- marginalia_nu 5y agoYeah, that's just not a type of query my search engine is particularly good at. It's pretty dumb, and just tries to match as much of the webpage against the query as it can. This used to be how all search engines worked, but I guess people have been taught by google that they should ask questions now, instead of search for terms. I wonder how I can guide people to make more suitable queries. Maybe I should just make it look less like google.