5 Apr
2013
5 Apr
'13
2:12 p.m.
Some things are easy to Google, and you get reasonably appropriate results.
Other things give you whacky results!
Google HP 700/96, and you get decent results.
Google apple, and the first 20 items relate to Apple computers or Apple
Corp., not to eating apples.
Google Commodore, and surprisingly, the first line is not Commodore computer
related. (Interestingly, it seems a company has bought the rights to the
Commodore and Amiga names, and will be re-inventing the C64 with nVidia
graphics inside)
Google wolf cub, and you get everything from animals to Scouting to music to
golf clubs!
Seems like they need to tweak their algorithms again?
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5 Apr
5 Apr
2:31 p.m.
On 04/05/2013 05:12 PM, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus wrote:
Some things are easy to Google, and you get reasonably
appropriate results.
Other things give you whacky results!
Google HP 700/96, and you get decent results.
Google apple, and the first 20 items relate to Apple computers or Apple
Corp., not to eating apples.
Of course. The Internet is a technical thing, despite salespeoples'
attempt to turn it into something else, and despite the general public's
fascination with thinking of it as the next generation of TV set.
Google Commodore, and surprisingly, the first line is
not Commodore computer
related. (Interestingly, it seems a company has bought the rights to the
Commodore and Amiga names, and will be re-inventing the C64 with nVidia
graphics inside)
I suppose that's not all that shocking, though it is somewhat dismaying.
Google wolf cub, and you get everything from animals
to Scouting to music to
golf clubs!
Good heavens.
Seems like they need to tweak their algorithms again?
Of that there is NO question.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
3:22 p.m.
On 4/5/2013 2:31 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 04/05/2013 05:12 PM, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus
wrote:
It's the new improved "dynamic search algorithm". Go back
and do
the query again from the same machine. The results won't be the same.
"Recent" updates that Google turned on that supposedly look at the
totality of your (and apparently other's) recent internet activity to
post and rank results...
s2
Some things are easy to Google, and you get
reasonably appropriate results.
Other things give you whacky results!
Google HP 700/96, and you get decent results.
Google apple, and the first 20 items relate to Apple computers or Apple
Corp., not to eating apples.
Of course. The Internet is a technical thing, despite salespeoples'
attempt to turn it into something else, and despite the general public's
fascination with thinking of it as the next generation of TV set.
Google Commodore, and surprisingly, the first
line is not Commodore computer
related. (Interestingly, it seems a company has bought the rights to the
Commodore and Amiga names, and will be re-inventing the C64 with nVidia
graphics inside)
I suppose that's not all that shocking, though it is somewhat
dismaying.
Google wolf cub, and you get everything from
animals to Scouting to music to
golf clubs!
Good heavens.
Seems like they need to tweak their algorithms
again?
Of that there is NO question.
-Dave
5 p.m.
On 04/05/2013 03:22 PM, steve shumaker wrote:
It's the new improved "dynamic search
algorithm". Go back and do
the query again from the same machine. The results won't be the same.
"Recent" updates that Google turned on that supposedly look at the
totality of your (and apparently other's) recent internet activity to
post and rank results...
More to the point, even when I put a term in quotes, Google will still
insist on grabbing things "like" it, often ahead of verbatim results.
This really throws a monkey wrench into trying to come up with precise
searches.
Perhaps an expanded notation is needed as in "apple:fruit" to sift out
the edible kind.
--Chuck
6 Apr
6 Apr
3:49 p.m.
On 6-apr-2013 2:00, Chuck Guzis wrote:
More to the point, even when I put a term in quotes,
Google will still
insist on grabbing things "like" it, often ahead of verbatim results.
This really throws a monkey wrench into trying to come up with precise
searches.
That is indeed rather annoying, although it's relatively speaking
nothing compared to Google's more malicious practices (involving
their infamous data mining efforts).
- MG
8 Apr
8 Apr
4:53 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 04/05/2013 03:22 PM, steve shumaker wrote:
Have you used the "verbatim search" feature?
Peace... Sridhar
It's the new improved "dynamic search
algorithm". Go back and do
the query again from the same machine. The results won't be the same.
"Recent" updates that Google turned on that supposedly look at the
totality of your (and apparently other's) recent internet activity to
post and rank results...
More to the point, even when I put a term in quotes, Google will still
insist on grabbing things "like" it, often ahead of verbatim results.
This really throws a monkey wrench into trying to come up with precise
searches.
Perhaps an expanded notation is needed as in "apple:fruit" to sift out
the edible kind.
9 Apr
9 Apr
8:57 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 04/08/2013 04:53 AM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
On search results, go to "All Results"->"Verbatim". I'd love
for them
to allow one to set that up as default for one's Google account.
Peace... Sridhar
Have you used the "verbatim search"
feature?
Have G changed the rules again? It wasn't that long ago that quotes
around a search term meant "exactly this". What's the current convention?
9:04 a.m.
On 04/09/2013 11:57 AM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Are you sure they don't? If so...I wonder why. Weird.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 04/08/2013 04:53 AM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
On search results, go to "All Results"->"Verbatim". I'd love
for them to
allow one to set that up as default for one's Google account. Have you used the "verbatim search"
feature?
Have G changed the rules again? It wasn't that long ago that quotes
around a search term meant "exactly this". What's the current convention?
9:08 a.m.
On Apr 9, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Oh, that's really good to know. I'm tired of my searches for
DECNET being dominated by results for "decent". Yes, Google,
I can spell.
- Dave
On 04/08/2013 04:53 AM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
On search results, go to "All Results"->"Verbatim". I'd love
for them to allow one to set that up as default for one's Google account. Have you used the "verbatim search"
feature?
Have G changed the rules again? It wasn't that long ago that quotes
around a search term meant "exactly this". What's the current convention?
9:21 a.m.
On 04/09/2013 12:08 PM, David Riley wrote:
On search results, go to "All Results"->"Verbatim". I'd love
for them to allow one to set that up as default for one's Google account.
Oh, that's really good to know. I'm tired of my searches for
DECNET being dominated by results for "decent". Yes, Google,
I can spell.
Perhaps Google's algorithms just really like DECnet. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Have you used
the "verbatim search" feature?
Have G changed the rules again? It wasn't that long ago that quotes
around a search term meant "exactly this". What's the current convention?
6 Apr
6 Apr
7:21 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus <
sales at elecplus.com> wrote:
Some things are easy to Google, and you get reasonably
appropriate results.
Other things give you whacky results!
Google HP 700/96, and you get decent results.
Google apple, and the first 20 items relate to Apple computers or Apple
Corp., not to eating apples.
Google Commodore, and surprisingly, the first line is not Commodore
computer
related. (Interestingly, it seems a company has bought the rights to the
Commodore and Amiga names, and will be re-inventing the C64 with nVidia
graphics inside)
Google wolf cub, and you get everything from animals to Scouting to music
to
golf clubs!
Seems like they need to tweak their algorithms again?
Google keeps track of what you usually search for and tweaks the algorithm
accordingly. So, if you search for computer equipment all the time, then do
a search for commodore, you get commodore computers. If you search for
naval history terms all the time, you'd probably get commodore Perry at the
top.
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