Google results which are diverse -- approaching your query from different angles -- are good, and those which aren"t diverse can be a barrier to find what you"re after.
Take for instance the query [google blog], which I"ve been monitoring every now and then for some years now. It"s ambiguous input which can mean mainly any of the three things: 1) the user wants to see the official blog by Google Inc., 2) the user heard about Google"s blogging platform and wants to find Blogger.com, or 3) the user is looking for an independent blog covering Google. There may be even more cases than this.
Some search engines, upon entering an ambiguous query, return related search suggestions. Google does so too, at the end of the results; they link to searches for [unofficial google blog], [google employee blog], [create blog] and mo ...
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