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POLL: for the Google Users (everyone)

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
I find myself trusting Google so completely I click on the first search return without looking...anyone else do this?
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If you do that, why not just click "im feelin lucky"
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
why don't you just click feeling lucky?
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doesn't mean I find the first result useful all the time, but i just absentmindedly click it now..i assume because i've gotten good first result returns a majority of the time.
 
I don't really like Google. Usually the first 30 or 40 links have nothing at all to do with what I'm searching for. Suppose I want detailed information on how something works. Google will always give you links to what sells it not sites that discribe it. So I ALWAYS have to look at the summary. I miss the old days of having search engines take you right where you wanted to go - places guaranteed to answer your question since humans read them and told the search engine which questions it answers (the old ask.com did that).
 
Why would you ever click ther first entry without looking? There is the I'm Feeling Lucky option which does that for you.
 
I definitely look at the summary first, but Google's system doesn't always make the summary the most coherent or useful thing in the world to understand as it tries to display the search term in context. I actually like Yahoo's new results page a lot better than Google's and use them more now even though they use the same description. You still get Google results and the cached link option (which I use a lot) but their results page is just a lot cleaner for my tastes. Google's results page is actually lagging way behind several other search engines in terms of design. It needs an overhaul IMO.

Edit: There's actually some tags you can drop in your source code that'll cause Google not to display a description in context. We've actually used this on a couple of our client's sites and it ironically seems to help click rates sometimes.
 
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