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Digging Holes in Google

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-feeling-lucky dept.

Kurt LoVerde writes "Though google has become synonymous with searching, the folks over at MSN have written up an interesting article on our favorite search engine's pitfalls. Included among these are a tendency to skew results toward shopping, a lack of diversity for searches containing synonyms and its impact on research."

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  1. Pretty weak by jandrese · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Those are some pretty weak allegations.

    The jist of the article is that if you give google a one (common) word search term, that the results may not be as precise as you want. For instance, if you want the nutritional content of an apple, and you put "apple" into Google, you're going to get a bunch of hits for things that don't have what you're looking for.

    I'm sure a lot of you are saying "duh" right now.

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