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My only real beef with Google search at the moment is that it seems to give too much weight to "current events." If there is some big piece of news (like the re
by dmoy 15y ago
My only real beef with Google search at the moment is that it seems to give too much weight to "current events." If there is some big piece of news (like the recent school shooting), it funnels you towards that result. I was looking for some statistics on suburban schools, and a search for 'suburban schools' returned 9 results about the shooting that occurred the day before, and result from ehow.com
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It would be pretty cool if we could have knobs that would control the weighting of different factors - news, wiki, help websites, etc.
I guess I don't really know how it works though, so maybe that's not very feasible (or maybe it'd be too easy to game?).
- waterlesscloud 15y agoWith sort of the opposite result for tech searches. It's very common to get links to blog and forum posts from several years ago when it's far more likely that information posted in the last year would be more helpful.
- saryant 15y agoYou can limit the time span of your search in the sidebar on Google. I'll often do that when I'm searching for something technical.
- dmoy 15y ago!!!! Awesome! I can't believe I never noticed that. This 100% solves this specific case for me, since I can just tailor the time range to before the current event occurred. Thanks so much :)
- wickedchicken 15y agoExcellent for "best way to install X" posts when X is fast-moving :)
- robrenaud 15y agoYou can restrict your search by date range. So you can exclude everything from the last two weeks, or the current year. https://www.google.com/search?q=middle+school+statistics&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A2%2F27%2F2002%2Ccd_max%3A1%2F1%2F2012 https://www.google.com/search?q=middle+school+statistics&...