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No need to say why [particular brand] of search engine can outperform Google. Really, any search engine could outperform Google by doing the following: 1. Whe
by mynameishere 4y ago
No need to say why [particular brand] of search engine can outperform Google. Really, any search engine could outperform Google by doing the following:
1. When I search for "X Y Z", ensure that the resulting documents contain X AND Y AND Z. The plus signs and quotes don't work. No exceptions to this rule, unless the user specifically requests "OR" searches, fuzzy searches, stemming, synonyms, etc. But no one will request those things because those things suck. (Recommending spelling corrections are okay, however. Just don't automatically perform them.)
2. Do not show me what "People also ask". Fire the product manager who is keeping this shit in the results.
3. Do not mix images and video and news with web results. I see the "images" etc links. I know how to click on things.
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Has anybody had this experience with Google lately: Fighting and fighting to get it to NOT show 800 billion non-matching results, and then finally getting the actual result you want, only to have it be accompanied by the warning, "It looks like there aren't many good results for your search." Bad design award of the year, for that one.
- thematrixturtle 4y agoFYI, Google recently announced they're improving exact searches: https://blog.google/products/search/how-were-improving-search-results-when-you-use-quotes/ https://blog.google/products/search/how-were-improving-searc...