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Google’s results for “Postel’s law” and “Jon Postel” are fine. “Postel” is ambiguous, a fairly common surname, so websites of unrelated companies show up, and a
by skybrian 2y ago
Google’s results for “Postel’s law” and “Jon Postel” are fine. “Postel” is ambiguous, a fairly common surname, so websites of unrelated companies show up, and a disambiguating page on wikipedia that links to Jon Postel and several other people.
- ok123456 2y agoI thought the whole point of letting Google surveil your entire life was they would know that if you're interested in computing and networks, to the point of participating on news.hackernews.com, then they'd know that if you're searching for "Postel," you'd probably want Postel's law to be on the first page. We're back at pre-1998 search, where we have to specify more and more context just to get results that aren't noise.