> Users of Google search want the best results, not all results.
The ironic thing is Google is violating their earlier principles to provide "best results." IIRC, one of their big early differentiators (which they made a big deal about), was making the default query operator AND and not OR. A lot of early search engines used OR to pump up their "total hits" numbers, now Google essentially does the same thing by dropping terms from your query if the number of hits are "too low."
The ironic thing is Google is violating their earlier principles to provide "best results." IIRC, one of their big early differentiators (which they made a big deal about), was making the default query operator AND and not OR. A lot of early search engines used OR to pump up their "total hits" numbers, now Google essentially does the same thing by dropping terms from your query if the number of hits are "too low."