A single mediocre experience optimized to work ‘most of the time’ for ‘most people’ is quite contrary to the narrative that has made Google such tremendous amounts of money (“let us surveil you so that you can have a more personalized experience”) though, isn’t it?
Given all of the data collected about Google users, ought not one of the applications of that data be some way to give users specifically what they are searching for if their past behavior suggests that they mean what they type? Couldn’t the “search only for <exact query>“ option be a very good data point on making that determination automatically, or enabling a user setting for “give me exact results based on what I actually typed by default”?
It seems possible to me that this behavior has more to do with the value of ads for “big” keywords than with (poorly) inferring user intent.
I appreciated the way that the reports are organized by problem-being-solved. It might be nice to be able to filter for specific constraints (like "SSO Support") so as to exclude services in each category that are non-starters.
It seems like Tooltip is focused on the procurement/administration side of things. What about being a user? I mentioned SSO above because maintaining credentials for a lot of different services is cumbersome even with a password manager. Re-discovery of information I know I have seen somewhere suffers since it's harder to remember on which platform I saw it when there are multiple possibilities.
This is how the lead author of the study we are discussing interprets the new information: “Our paper, which had a global impact within 24 hours of publication, provides important support for the following crucial public health actions: vaccinate the unvaccinated ASAP; give boosters to all those who are eligible ASAP; maintain social and public health measures despite vaccination.” (This is the fifth paragraph the linked article).
Given all of the data collected about Google users, ought not one of the applications of that data be some way to give users specifically what they are searching for if their past behavior suggests that they mean what they type? Couldn’t the “search only for <exact query>“ option be a very good data point on making that determination automatically, or enabling a user setting for “give me exact results based on what I actually typed by default”?
It seems possible to me that this behavior has more to do with the value of ads for “big” keywords than with (poorly) inferring user intent.