"this is great" can be an entire sentence. "is great" could be preceded by any number of other words: "Hacker News is great," "The iPod is great," etc. I've l

"this is great" can be an entire sentence. "is great" could be preceded by any number of other words: "Hacker News is great," "The iPod is great," etc. I've long ago given up trying to make sense of what the hell Google has done to search. Both Google Books and YouTube search are exercises in letting yourself be abused. None of this is the Google that made everyone flock to Google when it was unknown. EDIT for a typo.