[Web4lib] searching for "the"

[Mike Taylor]

> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:21:58 -0400
> From: Eric Hellman <eric at openly.com>
> 
> more interesting is to compare the google search for "the" to the
> google search for "thé". it seems that accuracy in advertising is
> more important to google than accuracy in search.

What you call "inaccuracy" here is surely what users actually want 90%
of the time.  In fact, it's a fine example of the kind of "dumbing
down" of search that librarians and other information professionals
hate, that Google is so good at, and that is attracting such a vast
number of users to Google.

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