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They do try search combinations with some words omitted, and right at the bottom of each query they tell you which part of your phrase they have excluded.
by nevi-me 12y ago
They do try search combinations with some words omitted, and right at the bottom of each query they tell you which part of your phrase they have excluded.
- Wilya 12y agoI also get this behaviour all the time, and I have no idea how it could improve the quality of my search results. Yes, if I search for "Windows 7 NAT", dropping the NAT keyword returns more results. But none of them will give me the information I'm looking for.
- ninkendo 12y agoExactly. Searches with less results are nearly always better than searches with more... I don't know why Google would think it's helpful to include more, but clearly less relevant results. (By definition, too. If a result is lacking one of your search terms, it's less relevant to what you searched for, strictly speaking.) This is especially true when what I'm searching for yields almost no results. That's how I typically know that what I'm searching for was probably bogus to begin with. But when the first page is full of a bunch of fuzzed-out results that are only tangentially related to what I searched for, I now have to skim through a page full of results to realize that Google just gave up and decided to omit several of my terms.
- ninkendo 12y agoRight, and it told me that the CPAN pages were with "ruby" omitted. But why would I want those search results? Those are obviously not what I searched for. And they weren't at the bottom, they were actually the first result on the list.