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My favorite is when you fight and fight and fight, looking for something and then you finally manage to narrow the results down to what you wanted, and it says (right above the correct result):

"It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search"

Good job, Goog!

I remember when it was new, and one of the killer features was the dead-simple "innovation" of having AND searches instead of OR. To this day, I think that any search engine that queried based upon the exact provided search terms would eat their lunch. Probably not, but I would like it.




I'm not sure how the search engine you suggest would filter out noise. There is just an ocean of generated content that exists out there filled with just about every string you could imagine that attempts to get you to click on a link so they can show an ad.

The modern internet is full of hot garbage.


Any page with ads, remove it from the results. I'm not saying this would in any way be in Google's interest, but I'd love to see a search engine that did this.


That is a fantastic idea.


> I'm not sure how the search engine you suggest would filter out noise.

This seems orthogonal to the suggestion. Presumably the search engine would still filter out noise.

However, even if the other poster means they want the raw internet as well, there's no technical limitations preventing search engines from offering a 'filtered' or 'raw' option. They already offer filters based on what you're looking for (books, news) or to exclude explicit results.


> I think that any search engine that queried based upon the exact provided search terms would eat their lunch.

Kagi is probably what you're looking for then. :)

https://kagi.com


Google search is optimized to deliver more ads. Providing the result you want quickly is against this.




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