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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 t
by 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
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. 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 agoWhile 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 agoBut 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 agoI 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]