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jadebox - 3:08 pm on Aug 1, 2006 (gmt 0)


I use Google for all my searching. I think that the "bad results" returned by Google are not from Google errors but from the user's lack of knowledge on how to use the advanced search "operators" supplied by all SE.

What amazes me is after all this time, most searchers don't know that JIM CATANICH and "JIM CATANICH" will return different results.

Google used to be much better at handling phrases without requiring quotes.

A few years ago if you searched for

BLUE WIDGETS REPAIR

Google would understand it as if you entered

"BLUE WIDGETS" REPAIR

But now it seems to have lost this ability and results for "multi-phrase" phrases are not as good.

-- Roger


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