google weirdness

[darkoshi]

This search query ("I'm the fire of your") returns 5 results:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22i%27m+the+fire+of+your%22

This search query ("I'm the fire of your desire") returns 10 results:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22i%27m+the+fire+of+your+desire%22

*and* the 2nd one says at the bottom, "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 10 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."

It doesn't make sense. Yeah, I got the lyrics wrong, but still, it doesn't make sense that adding more words to an exact-match query (within quotes) makes it return more results.

Hmmm. Google must automatically filter out pages with the word "desire" unless you specifically use it in your query. Or maybe it filters it when you put it together with another word like fire. Maybe if I were logged into a Google account when doing my queries, and had my settings set to not filter anything, it would act differently.

Comments

[marahmarie]

What's weird is there are still 5 and 10 results, respectively, but now your post here is in both result lists.

[darkoshi]

Yes, that's even more weird. I wonder which other search result my post caused to be bumped off.
It disproves my last idea about the page being filtered out of the first query's results when the page has both words.

I now also tried both queries from my other browser where I'm logged in to my Google account, and the results are the same as without being logged in. Even though "Safe Search" is unchecked in my search settings.

[marahmarie]

Hmmm. Google must automatically filter out pages with the word "desire" unless you specifically use it in your query.

There's absolutely *no* reason for Google to do that. Why filter out "desire" but not "dreams", when "desire" is probably a pretty common mishearing of the lyrics (Bananarama, "Venus" - I always heard it as "of", not "at", myself, so thanks for the correction!).