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Your search query would be bad on most platforms. You're basically searching the index for "pieces", "of" and "me" separately. If that's a song title, you shoul
by smoldesu 4y ago
Your search query would be bad on most platforms. You're basically searching the index for "pieces", "of" and "me" separately. If that's a song title, you should put it in quotes. If you rewrite your query to do that, it starts giving actual results: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22pieces+of+me%22+is+actually+a+good+song+reddit https://www.google.com/search?q=%22pieces+of+me%22+is+actual...
- jgalt 4y agoLike making a query on a database of SEO optimized websites. Is that what we should expect from Google?
- smoldesu 4y agoI don't know what you expect from Google. I use this trick in DuckDuckGo all the time however and it's great for cutting through riff-raff. Should they do better? Probably. The thread title is hyperbole though, and I wanted to point out that adding 2 characters to the query puts it's results on-par with the other engines.
- underlipton 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679024