My only real beef with Google search at the moment is that it seems to give too much weight to "current events." If there is some big piece of news (like the recent school shooting), it funnels you towards that result. I was looking for some statistics on suburban schools, and a search for 'suburban schools' returned 9 results about the shooting that occurred the day before, and result from ehow.com
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It would be pretty cool if we could have knobs that would control the weighting of different factors - news, wiki, help websites, etc.
I guess I don't really know how it works though, so maybe that's not very feasible (or maybe it'd be too easy to game?).
With sort of the opposite result for tech searches. It's very common to get links to blog and forum posts from several years ago when it's far more likely that information posted in the last year would be more helpful.
!!!! Awesome! I can't believe I never noticed that. This 100% solves this specific case for me, since I can just tailor the time range to before the current event occurred. Thanks so much :)
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It would be pretty cool if we could have knobs that would control the weighting of different factors - news, wiki, help websites, etc.
I guess I don't really know how it works though, so maybe that's not very feasible (or maybe it'd be too easy to game?).