Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by shazow on Saturday March 03, 2012 @07:42PM
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Smallest grammatical change to get the correct result: https://www.google.com/search?q=the+movie+where+babies+cant+...
"the movie where no babies can be born anymore" ->
"the movie where babies can't be born anymore"
There is definitely some room for improvement here, I'll submit this internally.
Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by tricolon on Sunday March 04, 2012 @02:25AM
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Also, compare these:
"movie where no babies are born anymore"
"movie where no babies are born"
Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by dlikhten on Monday March 05, 2012 @12:24PM
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ddg still fairly bad with that
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+movie+where+babies+cant+be+born...
Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by devilant on Saturday March 03, 2012 @08:06PM
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Yeah. A Picture may be worth 1000 words, but 1000 words isn't enough to tell a full story.
Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by phireal on Sunday March 04, 2012 @12:08PM
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I don't know, Knock manages pretty well with seventeen.
Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by mathattack on Saturday March 03, 2012 @09:11PM
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Bing wasn't gibberish. Bing was wrong consistently in the same way. Just a subtle point that the problem is doable. I'd be interested in broader comparisons.
Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by dlikhten on Monday March 05, 2012 @12:22PM
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Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by nolok on Saturday March 03, 2012 @08:39PM
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Ah, DDG still refusing to load any results for me. That website really doesn't want me to use it ...
Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by epi0Bauqu on Saturday March 03, 2012 @08:45PM
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Please email me -- would love to sort it out.
Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by skeletonjelly on Sunday March 04, 2012 @02:50AM
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Doesn't DDG use Bing as it's primary search provider?
Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by SteveJS on Saturday March 03, 2012 @07:49PM
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Why does the picture show Bing in Beta? Is there somewhere where it is still in beta? Google clearly has it's new (IMO uglier) UI.
Re:Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
by pvarangot on Saturday March 03, 2012 @11:02PM
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I'm in Argentina. Some months ago a Microsoft guy told the me Beta thing is because Bing has not yet been localized to Spanish. I don't know if this is currently the case, but I definitely still see "Beta" in the logo in all my searches.
BING returns gibberish results, GOOG returns an IMDB link to "Children of Men", the perfect answer.
But one search out of billions is easy to gimmick, what are the results with a slightly different search string:
"the movie where no babies can be born anymore"
http://www.bing.com/search?q=the+movie+where+no+babies+can+b...
https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&safe=of...
Bing's search is more accurate in the above example
Not "knock it out of the park" accurate but GOOG returns the complete wrong answer
How many of these could you find if you had the time in your day?
That said, as a guy with a bunch of MSFT stock I can't remember the last time I used BING