What Is The Top Result On Google?
Greg Linden wonders why Google returns such different results for crap searches like “the“, “of“, “to” and “and“. Its a good question, and one I wouldn’t mind to see answered.
Perhaps we should look at what other sites do as well. What do the results look like for [the], [of], [to], and [and] on Yahoo Search? They also differ from each other and from Google’s. In fact, these results seem even more strange, with Crate and Barrel making it to the top on [and] and some site called To-Done being the top for [to]. Hmm…
Only MSN Search behaves even remotely close to what I was expecting. Results for [of], [to], [the], and [and] are fairly similar.
Perhaps this is just a spot where small weightings deep in the Google guts make a nonsensical difference. When there’s so little information about searcher intent — a search for [the] or [and] — it matters little what you show. Little tinkers here and there that might make a difference when intentions are clearer are probably just revealing themselves in odd ways for these broad queries.
I’ve always liked searching for “www” or .com, those are pretty good bets.
nice blog buddy ! now we know the all importance of the words like the with etc
thanks
informative
Comment by Sydney Adams | February 3, 2006