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by MiddleEndian 1814 days ago
For those who have joined, I'm curious about the following query:

Are women better than men at limbo?

The results on Google[0] and Bing[1] are both entirely useless clickbait. I just want to know if women can bend back farther than men without falling over.

0. https://www.middleendian.com/limbogoogle.png

1. https://www.middleendian.com/limbobing.png

1 comments

What do you want out of this query (yes, the SERPs are pretty bad)? I rewrote the query to [ who is best at limbo ] and got a much better result from Google.

But as soon as you add 'gender' to the query it switches to articles about being in 'gender limbo' which is't totally surprising.

Yeah those results are better, and it's clear that the best limboer is a woman who can apparently limbo under a car lol.

I just wish the standard results weren't such irrelevant junk.

With DDG on my phone in incognito mode (my normal usage) I get nothing at all related to bending over backwards.