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I can imagine you might want news about facebook. You might also be looking for third parties commenting on the trustworthyness or not of facebook as a service

I can imagine you might want news about facebook. You might also be looking for third parties commenting on the trustworthyness or not of facebook as a service/company. You might be after investing info in meta. You might want to install their app you might want help logging in or a guide to setting up an account. I'd consider all of the above relevant enough to be worthy of a position on the results page.

dustypotato 2y ago
Yes, but they include a box for news in the first page. I assume 90% of people who search for google /facebook/youtube intend to go to the site itself. And if they want specifics they just type in the additional keywords. so this would be Facebook trustworthiness Facebook stock Facebook app Facebook account setup help . I guess google is no longer a "search engine" as in doing a keyword search across multiple webpages and returning the matches, but an AI powered answer engine that guesses what you want based on your keywords and only returns those results.
- gpderetta 2y ago
  While you could potentially justify it by evoking an ill defined query intent detection, X returning less results than X+Y will always be surprising for me.
  - idiotsecant 2y ago
    But why? That is the naïve assumption from the context of primitive search techniques, but in the space of actual answers I think its going the right thing. Just give the user what they asked for.
    - JohnFen 2y ago
      I think this approach is probably in line with Google's, or at least it seems like it. Trying to intuit what I really want instead of paying attention to what I actually searched for is also one of the big reasons why I find Google search to be terrible. I am not its target demographic, it appears.
      - alimbourg 2y ago
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silverquiet 2y ago
Often I'm surprised at how I just seem to be wired differently from others - if I wanted any of the above, I'd probably search for them instead of just "facebook".

dustypotato 2y ago

Yes, but they include a box for news in the first page. I assume 90% of people who search for google /facebook/youtube intend to go to the site itself. And if they want specifics they just type in the additional keywords. so this would be Facebook trustworthiness Facebook stock Facebook app Facebook account setup help . I guess google is no longer a "search engine" as in doing a keyword search across multiple webpages and returning the matches, but an AI powered answer engine that guesses what you want based on your keywords and only returns those results.

gpderetta 2y ago
While you could potentially justify it by evoking an ill defined query intent detection, X returning less results than X+Y will always be surprising for me.
- idiotsecant 2y ago
  But why? That is the naïve assumption from the context of primitive search techniques, but in the space of actual answers I think its going the right thing. Just give the user what they asked for.
  - JohnFen 2y ago
    I think this approach is probably in line with Google's, or at least it seems like it. Trying to intuit what I really want instead of paying attention to what I actually searched for is also one of the big reasons why I find Google search to be terrible. I am not its target demographic, it appears.
    - alimbourg 2y ago
      [dead]

silverquiet 2y ago

Often I'm surprised at how I just seem to be wired differently from others - if I wanted any of the above, I'd probably search for them instead of just "facebook".