Comment Re:The Revenge of Google Labs! (Score 2, Insightful) 89
I don't get the Google search hate. I've seen similar comments about search being bad, but that is not my experience at all.
For my Google Searches:
~ 70% of the time the thing I want is the first result
~ 15% it would be within the first 3 or 4 links. (Most of those it would because I was lazy to type the additional search words to aim it towards the secondary source I was aiming for).
~ 5% The thing was between 5 links down, or on the second page
~ 5% of the time I have to try a different combination of words to get it
~ 5% the information I want just isn't out there in the way I want it.
The rewording is the only issue I have trouble with, and that normally happens when I'm doing a search for a thing but a thing with the same name and is completely different and more popular than my thing.
Am I just lucky? Are people bad and crafting google searches? Are people just salty?
What are some recently searches that have failed?