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Re: When Searching With Google

• Subject: Re: When Searching With Google
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 14:07:33 +0000
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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> Of all the different GUI interfaces, Google is the simplest. 
> Type in a list of words and hit submit at a minimum.  Others 
> do that, but Google is spectacularly unbaubled.  Is that 
> a good thing or a bad thing (good for using it, possibly 
> bad for interpreting results).

It's an accurate reflection of how the majority of people use 
search.  There are any number of drop downs and search qualifiers 
you could add, but people tend not to use them. So I guess it 
doesn't matter so much whether it's good or not since people won't 
use the rich stuff. Also bias, in a technical sense, is mostly 
impossible to remove from search (and learning) algorithms, you just 
need to be aware of what the bias is.

An even more accurate representation of how people search, would be 
a search engine that only ever came back with 1-3 pages on a query. 
I'd love to know what fraction of people click past page 3, or even 
page 1.

Bill de hÓra

-- 
Technical Architect
Propylon
http://www.propylon.com

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