Search for 'search' on Bing and Google comes up first as well:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=search&go=&qs=n&sk=...
They return the favour perhaps?
Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
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#72By the way, I realized that I cannot click on "I'm felling lucky" anymore for any keyword since the google instant immediately fires up.. :(
Used to spend quite a bit of time doing that.
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#73A few years back, Sergey and Larry were on NPR's Fresh Air. At one point in the interview, Terry Gross says "I tried searching for 'Google' by putting 'Google' into the search box and clicking I'm Feeling Lucky, but it didn't seem to do anything." Larry tries to explain what happened, but it seemed to go over Terry's head. At one point during the explanation I think Sergey mentioned recursion, and Terry asks "Recur-w…
Wow, when I read Terry's name I could immediately hear her voice. But for the life of me I can't imagine what she looks like. But for Serge & Larry, I can't imagine what they sound like at all, though I "see" their faces.
Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#74Search for 'search' on Bing and Google comes up first as well: http://www.bing.com/search?q=search&go=&qs=n&sk=... They return the favour perhaps?
for me, Yahoo comes up first on Bing.
Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#75Search for 'search' on Bing and Google comes up first as well: http://www.bing.com/search?q=search&go=&qs=n&sk=... They return the favour perhaps?
Yahoo for me too
Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#76A few years back, Sergey and Larry were on NPR's Fresh Air. At one point in the interview, Terry Gross says "I tried searching for 'Google' by putting 'Google' into the search box and clicking I'm Feeling Lucky, but it didn't seem to do anything." Larry tries to explain what happened, but it seemed to go over Terry's head. At one point during the explanation I think Sergey mentioned recursion, and Terry asks "Recur-w…
Side note: With results-as-you-type now being the default even from the Google front page, isn't "I'm feeling lucky" a totally vestigial button at this point?
Another non-cited story I've heard is an A/B test, or similar, was once done where they removed the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button from the front page, and an overwhelming number of users said they did not like the solitary search button. Having both gave the users a sense of choice, even though (as the story goes), "I'm feeling lucky" is used by only a small fraction of a percent of users.
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#77This is good for Google. They don't want to appear to be a monopoly. Google needs Bing to be mildly successful.
Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#78A few years back, Sergey and Larry were on NPR's Fresh Air. At one point in the interview, Terry Gross says "I tried searching for 'Google' by putting 'Google' into the search box and clicking I'm Feeling Lucky, but it didn't seem to do anything." Larry tries to explain what happened, but it seemed to go over Terry's head. At one point during the explanation I think Sergey mentioned recursion, and Terry asks "Recur-w…
I can't believe it, I type "Idempotence" in and hit Lucky and it just takes me to the Wikipedia entry on Idempotence!
Even worse, "idempotence idempotence idempotence" doesn't produce exactly the same result in Google as "idempotence".
Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
#79A few years back, Sergey and Larry were on NPR's Fresh Air. At one point in the interview, Terry Gross says "I tried searching for 'Google' by putting 'Google' into the search box and clicking I'm Feeling Lucky, but it didn't seem to do anything." Larry tries to explain what happened, but it seemed to go over Terry's head. At one point during the explanation I think Sergey mentioned recursion, and Terry asks "Recur-w…
Side note: With results-as-you-type now being the default even from the Google front page, isn't "I'm feeling lucky" a totally vestigial button at this point?
I think it's only ever been used by snarky lmgtfy-ers.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember once seeing a list of top X popular searches which included the term 'www.hotmail.com'. While I've no doubt it'd work, the level of understanding necessary to even attempt it is somewhat scary.
Um, I consider myself a native of computer-land and do this all the time . People accidentally type stuff in the wrong place. That doesn't mean they're cretins.
My father's computer uses msn.com as the homepage, which automatically grabs the focus and puts in in the search field of MSN. I'd guess that 90% of his queries on MSN are w.example.com, where the first "W"s are in the address bar where he placed his cursor, and then the actual input is queried to Bing.