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Yes, shorter queries return more relevant results. I think this was the first query that came to my mind:

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=Best+%22harry+pott...



Yeah, that's just not a type of query my search engine is particularly good at. It's pretty dumb, and just tries to match as much of the webpage against the query as it can.

This used to be how all search engines worked, but I guess people have been taught by google that they should ask questions now, instead of search for terms.

I wonder how I can guide people to make more suitable queries. Maybe I should just make it look less like google.




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