Wednesday, 3 August 2005
google dissatisfaction
Despite the title, I’m not dissatisfied with Google. Far from it. But I discovered a feature today that I’ve never seen before, and that I can’t find referenced anywhere—I don’t know if it’s brand-new, or if I just hadn’t discovered it yet.
I was looking for a student’s blog, and foolishly typed in the blog’s name (Jay is) without using quotes. Google unsurprisingly dropped the “is” from the search, and told me it had found 34 million results for “Jay.”
But after the first five results, I saw this (click to see full screen results):
Below it were the results for the (much better) phrase search, with Jay’s blog as the first link.
It’s been a long time since a search engine did something to improve my experience in such a direct way. Bravo, Google.
