Forget Rand Paul, Let's Talk Paul Rand

Re:Forget Rand Paul, Let's Talk Paul Rand by greghendershott on Thursday April 23, 2015 @10:32PM (#9431112)

I'd say that Google's job is to show the search results that _each_ user is actually looking for. (Not an aggregate user with 2.5 children.)

Come to think of it, doesn't Google aspire to personalized search? But in any case, at least I'd like old-fashioned quoted search -- i.e. I want "this phrase" exactly -- to give useful results.

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Re:Forget Rand Paul, Let's Talk Paul Rand by jader201 on Thursday April 23, 2015 @10:37PM (#9431132)

I didn't think phrase matching (quotes) was ever broken? I know Google dropped the "+" filter a while back, but I still continue to use phrase matching quite heavily, and it seems to still work as it always has.

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Re:Forget Rand Paul, Let's Talk Paul Rand by 82xx on Friday April 24, 2015 @06:44AM (#9432401)

The string matching is fuzzy though. It is case insensitive and it ignores at least some non-alphanumeric characters.

For example, "twenty-four" will return results about the TV show "Twenty Four" as well as results for "twenty four" and "twenty-four".

There's some other maddening exceptions for those who would prefer exact string matching, but I can't remember them all and it's changed over the years too.

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Re:Forget Rand Paul, Let's Talk Paul Rand by cdcarter on Friday April 24, 2015 @12:55AM (#9431502)

I think it does. After clicking this article, my top four search results for Paul Rand (without quotes) were the designer.

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