Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Google

Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by DanBC on Thursday March 22, 2012 @07:55PM (#3742692)

You are not the typical user that Google is aiming for. I find the unasked for word substitutions and stemming and "corrections" and the bubble frustrating, but I recognise that I'm an edge case. Google really should have some kind of "what you type is what you get" mode, with user-definable stemming and word substitution and bubbles and etc.

(http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/search-using-your...)

> we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly.

Check my arithmetic but that means only 1 in 600 searches used + correctly; 2 in 600 used it wrong, and the other 597 searches didn't use it at all.

0.5% == 3 in 600 2/3 == 66% = 2 in 3 are wrong

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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by JonnieCache on Thursday March 22, 2012 @09:37PM (#3743151)

> Google really should have some kind of "what you type is what you get" mode

http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/google-verbatim.h...

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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by tba on Friday March 23, 2012 @01:26AM (#3743835)

Doesn't work as advertised -- try searching for [["everything wrong" crossfade]] in verbatim mode.

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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by tripzilch on Thursday March 22, 2012 @10:25PM (#3743292)

Oh wow, if that works I'm going to use Google again. I hope there's some easy way to switch on that setting with a GET parameter so I can replace my default Google search.

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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by DanBC on Thursday March 22, 2012 @10:02PM (#3743232)

..."with user-definable stemming and word substitution".

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