Search engine question

[Orrex]

When I do a search that must include certain words, for example "chicken" and "egg," why is it that the top dozen or so results always omit one of the words?

The search says something like "Missing: egg. Must include: egg."

And that's not even counting the numerous ads that invariably top the results.


Is there any non-profit-based explanation for this overt omission of a required search parameter?

[Enter stage left]

1. In my educated opinion, I'd ask "which came first?"

[Orrex]

2. According to the Google, sometimes neither.

[Enter stage left]

5. OK, I'll capitulate to the "Google-meister" and NEVER question their super-superior...

expertise again.

I mean, why question Facebook, Twitter, Fox Noise...etc,etc,etc?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. On Google, search with the required word in quotes, or both if req: "chicken" "egg"

You will notice that if you click on "Must include: egg", you get a new search generated for you and if you look at the search text field you'll see that "egg" is now in quotes.

chicken egg

becomes

chicken "egg"


This also applies to phrases.

So searching for

putin trump roger stone

will return different results than

putin trump "roger stone"

[Orrex]

4. Hey, thanks for that!

But what puzzles me is that, if I enter those words in the "must include the words" field of the advanced_search page, why doesn't it omit those "doesn't include" results outright?

DAMN YOU, THE GOOGLE!

[mitch96]

6. I always thought that if there are not enough "hits" google throws in something close..

Or there was payment to put these non requested hits high on the search..YMMV
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