Giving you fresher, more recent search results
11/03/2011 08:19:00 AM
Search results, like warm cookies right out of the oven or cool refreshing fruit on a hot summer’s day, are best when they’re fresh. Even if you don’t specify it in your search, you probably want search results that are relevant and recent.If I search for [olympics], I probably want information about next summer’s upcoming Olympics, not the 1900 Summer Olympics (the only time my favorite sport, cricket, was played). Google Search uses a freshness algorithm, designed to give you the most up-to-date results, so even when I just type [olympics] without specifying 2012, I still find what I’m looking for.
This is not what we translators want, and how does Google know what the majority of searchers want?
This follows another idiotic change: it used to be easier to search for obscure words. Now, Google says ‘Did you mean X? Searching for X’ – you can click on your original term if you still want it.
Some colleagues say they are using DuckDuckGo and Blekko.
It is incredibly frustrating. You spend hours learning how to spell in various languages according to various regional and historical conventions and then along comes Google like a provincial schoolmaster and tells you you’re an illiterate.
http://scroogle.org/ isn’t bad.
Must try it. It sounds like a description of my feelings at the moment.