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Off-topic Google-related rant.
On Mar 5, 7:23*am, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Robert Macy wrote in news:dc5d7b4e-47cb-4353-a544- : At the top of that resulting list, is a little request to CLICK on and do the search the way you intended. Trust me, I am entirely familiar with those. It's actually nauseating, the number of times they do 'did you mean' when I know exactly what I meant. Example: -conver* Google-bleat: "Did you mean -convert*?" That's just pathetic. They see an expression from someone who clearly appears to know how to use a negation operator combined with stemming well enough to place a wildcard such that it eliminates 'convert' and also 'conversion', and despite making these rules up THEMSELVES, they fail to see them when they bite them from behind, and instead assume we made a TYPO or a misspelling.. It's not as if we don't make errors, but it's our call, not theirs. We CANNOT be precise anyway, if they won't let us, and they don't. If the banal alternative is sufficiently high in the spam rankings that they trust too much, they won;t even ASK me, they'll just switch out my search for their inane interpretation so I have to explicitly demand them to put it back! Sometimes even that fails and I have to work out even more stringent limitations to force it to comply. That's not 'helpful'. It's moronic. When I am trying hard to learn to code, I often find myself battling with Google instead of with the code! That's not what search engines are for! forgot to complain about how more and more websites come up in a search result, but no longer exist! You'd think google could turn a robot loose 'testing' websites and slowly removing obsolete ones from their search results. |
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