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I would interpret it as an invitation to refine my search query, because that’s too many results for me to usefully filter.
by sulam 4y ago
I would interpret it as an invitation to refine my search query, because that’s too many results for me to usefully filter.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoYes, but a reasonable person would likely think that there is that many results to wade through if they so chose.
- nmeagent 4y agoAn invitation to try to refine your search query, while Google simultaneously does its best to ignore a significant fraction of the terms in your refined query because it thinks it knows better than you.
- jasonfarnon 4y agoI would interpret "refine your search query" as an invitation to refine my search query. Not, there are ___ results and here is the first 10 of them and an arrow at the bottom of the page to go to the next 10. That is a pretty bad way of conveying "refine your search query". A pretty bad way that happens to be flattering to the company.
- onion2k 4y agoBut really, as far as any non-Googler is concerned, there's 400 actual results and a random number generator that generated "9,890,000,000" for that search. It's not a million miles from hotel and flights websites saying "37 people are looking at this page right now!" It's a dark pattern to increase engagement. A pretty innocuous one in Google's case, but it is a little deceptive.