I think you're applying the wrong criteria. If I go to my bank's Web site and ask to see all of my accounts, I want consistent (and consistently correct) results. But when I do a Web search, I just want relevant results - in fact there is no "correct" so why should I care about consistent? Why should I care if I do the same Google search twice and the number eight and nine results are different? Or even if the first and second hits are different? I care that the top ten or so pages are "good" results. It would be nice to think that they are the best of all possible results, but that's impossible - the "best" page may have been published fifteen minutes ago.
You're looking at a race car and complaining that it wouldn't be very good at pulling a plow. Google is not a financial tool that has to balance at the end of the day. It's a search tool. If you search for something twice (in your sock drawer, your bookshelf, your physical desktop, or on Google) you're likely to get different results. If you find what you're looking for, you're still going to be happy. Google-bashing is the new Microsoft-bashing (which in turn was the new IBM-bashing). Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Payne Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 2:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Google Architecture Just a shame it doesn't actually work. Ask any webmaster. Or check out the discussion groups on WebMasterWorld. Start at http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/ and read. Disaster after disaster - no search integrity at all. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/34588.htm too - "Big Daddy" is a disaster that Google is desperately trying to out from under. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
