kurokikaze comments on Your inner Google - Less Wrong

101 Post author: PhilGoetz 16 September 2011 06:56AM

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Comment author: kurokikaze 16 September 2011 08:56:45AM 2 points [-]

It will not return any specific person even if you speak Google: a person -"Genghis Khan"

Comment author: monsterzero 16 September 2011 08:56:06PM 7 points [-]

I googled 'a specific person -"genghis khan"' and got Bob Dylan in the top result. If you want specificity, include "specific".

Comment author: Solvent 16 September 2011 10:55:42AM 6 points [-]

Then again, if Google were optimized to provide useful answers to queries like these, it probably wouldn't be very useful.