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Google Don't Know Inches
January 26, 2007
It's finally snowing in northeast ohio and this here boy can finally break out his beloved snowmobile for some hot snow action on the local trails.
Just yesterday, I was out riding my sled in about 15 inches of fresh powder. After about 20 minutes, my engine was bogging down and I had to head back to the garage for a quick look. Low and behold, I was pulling a dead left cylinder due to water getting into the motor (not good considering the nasty implications water can impose on ANY engine). After careful review of spark plug coloring and air filter, I discovered my air filter was practically non-existent and needed replacement STAT.
Me being the search geek that I am, I instinctively head over to good ol' Google for a quick search - [3" air filter snowmobile] The results were OK at best, so I thought I'd search for 3" in quotes as to force Google to show just those results.
Now, due to the nature of exact phrase match searches, one must use quotes which unfortunately is the same symbol as inches. The results were a whopping 1 matched document in this case and was quite dishearening for me, but what can you do? Well, the only thing you can do in this case is spell it out for the search engine - [3 inch air filter snowmobile] and hope to get better results. In this case, I need to start checking with other engines as well as some well-known snowmobile parts sites to find my much needed air filter.
Since the forecast for this weekend is an additional 10 inches of snow, I'm going to find this damn filter if it kills me. Too bad Google couldn't come through for me this time around.
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posted by Sean Bolton at January 26, 2007 09:00 AM
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Comments
That's why it's still called search and not telepathy+teleportation. I run into this all the time and it's not really Google's fault. Maybe a little for the quotes enclosure but hey they are human trying to add features that they think might be useful.
Whenever this happens to me I just go back the root. Snowmobile Engine Filters and go from there.
In the end Google is just one huge database with some front end tools to search it. Asking the right questions is still our responsibility.
Posted by: John Barton at February 6, 2007 12:35 AM