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Patrick Neil
03-03-2008, 03:24 AM
If you get forwarded on to your default search engine, chances are pretty good it won’t help you figure out what went wrong. Their result page, in fact, had no results at all. Oops. In the past, their handling of searches that look like URLs had been very simple: the web results contained only documents from that site. Searching for Virginia Website Design you’d get documents only from Virginia Website Design. Sometimes this was great, usually it was okay, and sometimes it was pretty unhelpful. They were unhappy enough with it that they decided to try something a little different. With their recent release, they’ve significantly changed the way they handle searches that resemble URLs.

Virginia website design (http://www.wspgweb.com/) show a lot more results instead of a restricted narrow set and that doesn’t just include pages that mention the URL you’ve entered. Try these searches; I think they’ll illustrate it best results. And if you’re looking for a more literal interpretation of the URL for instance, to get sites that mention a given URL try wrapping it in quotes.

Virginia website design (http://www.wspgweb.com/) tends to spend a lot more time working out at the driving range than they do the putting green. Left on their own they'd all be working on stuff like 3D Birds Eye navigation or robotic building modeling; doing a local search for a coffee shop would require first getting strapped up like this Microsoft Researcher to the right so that they could predict where you wanted to find it and if you prefer decaf. Fortunately their team is lead by a seasoned cast of veteran cat herders who continuously remind them how important it is to be creating and improving the core features you use everyday at their site driving directions, geocoding, map navigation, local search... else you might not want to return to explore Collections and create 3D tours.