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zeep on Nov 11, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is it time to stop trusting Google search?

The way I see it is that Google is getting closer and closer to showing you only what they want... They tell you that they are guessing what you meant so that if it is completely unrelated, you don't get too suspicious.

scholia on Nov 11, 2017 [–]

Or maybe they are showing you what most people want, on the grounds that most people search for the same stuff.

In the context of billions of users doing billions of searches, HN readers could be fairly extreme outliers...

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