Google is adding a new feature to search today that will let you know when it thinks the search results it’s offering aren’t that good.
“It looks like there aren’t any great matches for your search,” the message reads, before prompting users with
suggestions that may help get better results, along with other related searches to try.
It’s not a wholly new idea; Google will already tell you if there aren’t any results — something that’s increasingly rare as the internet gets bigger and bigger and as Google gets better at analyzing and indexing the web. (One only need look at the nearly vanished sport of hunting for a “
Googlewhack” or a search phrase that results in just a single result on Google.) Google also offers recommendations for more accurate spelling and phrasing to help minimize bad searches.
