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> This is what any decent search engine should do -- return nothing, if you query is bad or too specific. Yes but there's a >0% chance that you'll click on a p
by tauntz 3y ago
> This is what any decent search engine should do -- return nothing, if you query is bad or too specific.
Yes but there's a >0% chance that you'll click on a potentially sponsored link (or a non-sponsored link to a page that itself contains ads) when you instead see a bunch of unrelated results. It makes financial sense to show random results vs not showing anything.