[greggturkington]

What "fundamental redeeming quality" about uninstalling AIM from Windows 3.x motivated making that the 3rd result for "dog"?

The 5th result is a tutorial on CSS. This search engine decided it's relevant because it has "dog" in the URL. Is that a better reasoning than Google's? https://htmldog.com/guides/css/beginner/

Core Web Vitals ranks sites higher that perform well. Text-heavy sites that are also optimized and relevant would already perform well.

[marginalia_nu]

What are you searching for when you enter the query "dog", keeping in mind the search engine deliberately does not examine synonyms or and deliberately seeks out the path less taken?

Dog facts? Then search "dog facts"

Famous dogs? Then search "famous dogs"

Rappers? Try "snoop dogg"

[greggturkington]

I'm searching for information on "dog".

Your suggestion of "dog facts" returns 6 pages from the same domain, dogquotes.com. It's unreadable on mobile because it's so old, all the facts are unsourced, and often wrong:

> Never assume that a barking dog won't bute [sic], unless you're absolutely certain the dog believes it too.

Also on the 1st SERP, this odd blog post ranting about 4th amendment rights [1], "Media Glamorization of the Psychopath" [2], and this (image-heavy) page about dolphin encounters in the Bahamas ("Sea Dog Facts" is a link on the page).

    1. http://www.rexcurry.net/drugdogsdan.html
    2. https://www.metaphoricalplatypus.com/articles/psychology/psychopathysociopathy/media-glamorization-of-the-psychopath/
    3. https://www.dolphinencounters.com/education/