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by miyuru 853 days ago
Do they charge for empty searches? If they charge for it, I agree at least something should be returned.
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Why? If it isn't relevant, you gain nothing. The information that nothing was found might even be better for you than "something".
I strongly disagree on this. If a search with no results costs them about the same amount of compute as one with results, then satisfying that requirement would give them a commercial incentive to lie to you about whether they have any good results for you, and to waste your time scrolling through bad results. Your time doing so is almost certainly worth more than what the search itself cost you.