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"module" is definitely a bad word to drop from the query [php cms module tutorial]; that's a problem. But I think a lot of times dropping a word makes the searc
by lacker 18y ago
"module" is definitely a bad word to drop from the query [php cms module tutorial]; that's a problem. But I think a lot of times dropping a word makes the search work and the user never even realizes what happened. It's one of those things you only notice when it goes wrong, so what is an acceptable success to failure ratio?
- lucumo 18y agoI would say that failure should be very, very low. What I really took issue with here was the relative silence about altering my query. It wouldn't have been half as bad if the note was on the top of the page. I would really prefer it if they just suggested that I may like to try the search without the word and leave it up to me to decide if that's what I want. In any case, these Google fuck-ups are not a rare occassion for me anymore. This morning I was searching for "min cut directed graph" (no quotes). Of the 10 results on the front-page only three were about directed graphs. The rest were about undirected graphs, despite the fact that I explicitly asked for directed graphs. At that point I snapped and continued my search with Yahoo!. Something I expect to do more often when this keeps up. It's really hard to find something if this is the way things work...