msgraph - 3:35 pm on Jan 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

It seems Google did their best, and succeeded for the most part, on cleaning up one-two word searches. The price they paid for doing so, is that they ruined almost any sort of NL phrase search or many searches that have 3+ words.

Multi-word phrases is where Google totally bungled their results. And this where you will most likely find the repetitive results that show Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo Directory, Dmoz Directory, Google Directory, Looksmart, Zeal, Shopping MSN, Eshop MSN, Dealtime, Bizrate, Lycos Bizrate, and more. Unless you quote your phrases you are pretty much tied into this directory/product abyss over and over again. Do they really need to list multiple pages of all these sites in the top 30. What happened to the rest of the web?

The question is will users get tired of the repetitive results and having the "shortest path to what they want" taken away from them?