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> Where do you see Google's implied promise to provide with you every result The implied promise is the button that says "Search". 1. It's a search engine. Se
by inetknght 4y ago
> Where do you see Google's implied promise to provide with you every result
The implied promise is the button that says "Search".
1. It's a search engine. Searching is useless if it doesn't provide results.
2. Searching with other tools works. Use `grep` or your computer's local search feature and it will give you all of the results.
3. If I go through my old email, I can download literally every email. I can search literally every email, for hundreds of thousands of email.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago> Searching is useless if it doesn't provide results. True. But that's not the question, is it? The question is whether only giving you the "first" N of the results makes it useless, or something else... Nobody, I think, is contesting, that search in some contexts is always expected to provide you with access to everything that is found. The issue is whether that can be expected to apply to a case where 10M results are found, and if not, what the cutoff point ought to be ...
- inetknght 4y ago> > > Where do you see Google's implied promise to provide with you every result > > The implied promise is the button that says "Search". > True. But that's not the question, is it? You wanna stop moving the goalposts?
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoI will if you will. You said: > Searching is useless if it doesn't provide results. but nobody has suggested that Google doesn't provide any results.
- xdavidliu 4y agowould you say it's at least misleading to say that there are 10 billion results? If not, how far would it have to go before you would consider it misleading?
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoi would call it a tease. i don't (currently) have any particular reason to disbelieve the result count. but under some circumstances i'd be pissed that google would not show me more than 500.