Minor irritations from Google
Nov. 1st, 2011 01:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanI think I'm starting to reset the fact that, when I do a Google Image Search, the first page of hits are taken from Google+. In fact, this happens when I'm searching on a name, even though most of the photos it shows me are people in the circle of that person on Google+, and not the people themselves. It's as if they're somehow overriding their "relevance" algorithm to be a "relevant Google service results and then other relevant results" algorithm.
Meanwhile, Google searches continue to ignore punctuation, so that "2+2" and "2 2" return the same results. This is a frequent irritation for me, since I often search on things where punctuation matters. On the other hand, "Google" and "Google+" are distinct. Which is Google's way of saying "we could include punctuation, but we just don't wanna", and "whatever you might need punctuation for, it's not as important as what we need it for".
(To be fair, Google searches also distinguish "C" from "C++" and "A" from "A+". Still.)
Meanwhile, Google searches continue to ignore punctuation, so that "2+2" and "2 2" return the same results. This is a frequent irritation for me, since I often search on things where punctuation matters. On the other hand, "Google" and "Google+" are distinct. Which is Google's way of saying "we could include punctuation, but we just don't wanna", and "whatever you might need punctuation for, it's not as important as what we need it for".
(To be fair, Google searches also distinguish "C" from "C++" and "A" from "A+". Still.)