arl critique: www_google_com.html

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date: 20030519T1600
source: http://www.google.com/

[20030519T1600]
Takes very long time to have new pages into search engine. Altavista is much faster.
Even when the new page is supplied them nothing happens:
it seems the service excludes pages being informed! ;-)

Spelling support fails, especially when Finnish or Europeian names are searched.
i.e. "Did you mean:" service.
Really funny alternatives are presented, even alternatives which are obscene, or not suitable.

Anonoymous commenting means no response. You never know if they have been notified your comments or if they do have blackhole type service.

[20030522T1730]
It seems google does have more and more commercial entries, i.e. when you search something the result will be gazillion companies selling their products for you, and you ending up checking hundreds of entries. Really funny especially if you have the product and try to find technical data for it!

[20030910T1210]
Wrong functionality within spelling support; if you make spelling support you will do it fail safe. This is not right:
Searching for: "linja-autoaikataulu" (Finnish, meaning bus time table)
google:
Did you mean: "linja-auto aikataulut" (plural, Finnish: not spelled correctly, because substantive + substantive cannot be separate)
I know it's hard to do spelling checking for all languages, but when you start to do something you will do it right.


© arl