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I miss altavista every single day. Every time I search for a collection of terms, and then click the links, and page-search for one of those terms, and it's no
by rsync 13y ago
I miss altavista every single day.
Every time I search for a collection of terms, and then click the links, and page-search for one of those terms, and it's not in the page.
Google wastes my time like this 3-4 times per day.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoYou can use "intext:blah" to make sure "blah" actually occurs in the page body itself: http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html
- joshuak 13y agoJust out of curiosity why is search text actually occurring in the page body an 'advanced' feature?
- PavlovsCat 13y agoBecause there are many factors taken into consideration by default, like anchor text of links to a page or the URL.
- zzzz123 13y agoone factor is "search for keywords that the user didn't search for"
- joshuak 13y agoWell I ment that a little facetiously. However, I agree those things should be taken into account--in addition to including documents with the terms you ask for in them. Pages with my terms (in order) should be the absolute highest ranked, and it should go down from there. At least if we're talking about building an intuitive google vs. really aggravating google.
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- dclowd9901 13y agoIn real life, do you find something by mimicking it? Then why would web searching be any different?
- Camillo 13y agoYes. "To find an X, you have to think like an X."
- rwallace 13y agoBecause heuristic search is often useful. For example, I was recently running some searches for Final Fantasy 10, and was highly appreciative of Google also finding pages where 10 was written as X. Of course, heuristic features in computer programs usually benefit from a "do what I say, not what I mean" override option, but it's reasonable to call that an advanced feature.
- TillE 13y agoThe problem is that Google frequently gets it wrong. A typical example: I was searching for a party's view of "wind turbines", and the second or third result was an article about that party's political "power" struggles. Bolded. Because wind turbine = power. There's a fine line between clever and stupid.
- zzzz123 13y agoThis feature will probably be removed at the next Google search "upgrade". Just like allinanchor: OR allintext: OR allinurl: OR allintitle:
- cynwoody 13y agoSometimes it helps to use the Search tools | Verbatim option to keep Google from drawing unwarranted conclusions about a page's relevance. They used to allow you to mark required terms with a +-sign, but unfortunately they took that feature out a while back.
- Semaphor 13y agoToday you have to use quotes: "searchterm" Pretty annoying as it requires two signs and at more than one place but at least it still allows me to search.
- nano111 13y agoI miss Google from ~5 years ago
- pjmlp 13y agoMe too, specially now with all the URL rewriting, language and IP filtering they do. As I travel around the world, I need to keep changing my search settings to find what I want.
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