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by horseLOGIC 2956 days ago
Do you, really? When do you ever search for just "string"? You're going to add some context, like "split string C++".

Now maybe you'll say Google should know you're programming in C++ all the time, so having learned that, Google should be able to infer that when you type in "split string", the results should all be for C++.

Except then somehow Javascript comes into your requirements and now you need to retrain your Google to give weight to that.

I'd much rather be able to use the Google, not my Google, so that I get more predictable results. It's already annoying that I can't tell people to google something and be sure whatever I'm talking about is in the top ten results of their Google.

> That sentence was stupid right from the beginning.

Nothing about that sentence was stupid and it's frightening that you don't seem to understand the ideal of being "unbiased" (as in "unbiased reporting"). We're going to be heading in the direction where's there's "liberal" and "conservative" search engines, causing even more polarization of our collective world views.