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Title: What the fuck, Goog?
Post by: NE2 on September 04, 2013, 10:43:37 PM
http://www.google.com/search?q=Kingston+and+Dallas+Turnpike
Title: Re: What the fuck, Goog?
Post by: corco on September 04, 2013, 10:52:31 PM
Wait what the fuck
Title: Re: What the fuck, Goog?
Post by: Brandon on September 04, 2013, 11:51:50 PM
That's why I Bing.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=Kingston+and+Dallas+Turnpike&pc=ZUGO&form=ZGAFDF
Title: Re: What the fuck, Goog?
Post by: Alps on September 04, 2013, 11:52:40 PM
... no matter how many locations these places have in Kingston and Dallas, that cannot possibly override more relevant results
Title: Re: What the fuck, Goog?
Post by: J N Winkler on September 05, 2013, 12:16:41 AM
You do get the relevant results within the first five hits if you group:  {"Kingston and Dallas" turnpike} instead of {Kingston and Dallas turnpike}.  I suspect NE2's initial search produced the results it did because Google has added Google Maps' intersection-parsing logic to the main search.
Title: Re: What the fuck, Goog?
Post by: NE2 on September 05, 2013, 01:33:39 AM
Quote from: J N Winkler on September 05, 2013, 12:16:41 AM
You do get the relevant results within the first five hits if you group:  {"Kingston and Dallas" turnpike} instead of {Kingston and Dallas turnpike}.
Actually one would need to do "Kingston and|& Dallas Turnpike" because turnpike (and railroad) names can be written either way. (Though this one seems to be all 'and'.)
Title: Re: What the fuck, Goog?
Post by: J N Winkler on September 05, 2013, 10:46:36 AM
Quote from: NE2 on September 05, 2013, 01:33:39 AMActually one would need to do "Kingston and|& Dallas Turnpike" because turnpike (and railroad) names can be written either way. (Though this one seems to be all 'and'.)

Thanks for this tip--I wouldn't have tried this since I distrust Google's parsing of pipe syntax within double quotes, but I tried it just now and it seems it produces actual results instead of complaining that there is nothing out there containing the string "&|and".