Hey Google, I want my cache links back

Re:Hey Google, I want my cache links back by jurjenh on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @03:59PM (#3049607)

I was going to suggest that google should insert a short "your search [A +B 'C D E'] returned x results" and then follow up with "Searching for [A B C D E] returned y results" to separate the results.

Now I think about it, Google is most likely doing this intentionally, to get more data for "natural language search" ie, to infer what people might mean by combining the results, then seeing what people click on to validate the technique.

This does mean that intentional input won't work anymore, unless there is a means to turn this semi-semantic search off.

Hmmmm... maybe DuckDuckGo would be a suitable alternative?

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Re:Hey Google, I want my cache links back by sixtofour on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @07:30PM (#3050401)

I'm very happy with DDG. Their ! commands are really nice, the red-boxed "this is probably what you want" at the top of the results page is nice, and their habit of identifying sites as "official" is nice.

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker+news

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