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by nappy 1604 days ago
I honestly have no idea what the "best" results would be for chicken. Maybe the Wikipedia entry? Not sure what else. It's sort of just a lazy search.
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>It's sort of just a lazy search.

A bad search deserves a bad result. If you walked up to me and just said one word "chicken", I'd be insulted. If you said one word "chicken" while pointing at your mouth, I'd perhaps think you spoke little English and wanted a place to eat chicken. Providing a bit more info is useful to get decent results.

As Jerry Maguire once said, "help me help you"

Well, if not all of humanity’s knowledge is freely and openly available on the web, how can we expect a search engine—any search engine—to provide a meaningful answer? I remember when Google aimed at scanning and indexing entire libraries, but then they had to stop due to copyright laws.