My favorite use for this is a Google IFL search restricted to site:wikipedia.org, so now "w something" in my URL bar takes me right to the Wikipedia page for Something.
So yeah, outsourcing to Google... but fast and handy and almost always what I'm looking for.
Actually, I've had a chance to use it quite a few times, and I was surprisingly happy with the results. Still I might have not tested all possible scenarios (like searching for a song knowing only a part of the lyrics with some errors), so your point obviously stands, thank for pointing this out.
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So, isn't it easier (and faster) to go directly to rapgenius or create custom search keyword in the browser, than ask google for the lyrics?
when I search lyrics in Google, I really want to go to rap genius
Sounds like a wasted step. Go to your site and search it. Or has it outsourced that (/expectation) to Google?
Even then, search {site: XYZ} in the g box and be done with it.
Better yet: add RapGenius as a %s-bookmark (or Chrome calls them search engines): "http://rapgenius.com/search?q=%s"
My favorite use for this is a Google IFL search restricted to site:wikipedia.org, so now "w something" in my URL bar takes me right to the Wikipedia page for Something.
So yeah, outsourcing to Google... but fast and handy and almost always what I'm looking for.
Their search engine isn't very good, as is the case with most sites. There's a reason why everyone uses Google to find things.
Hmm, so maybe they should, like, build a better internal one for themselves, instead of trying to scam the external one they rely on so thoroughly.
Actually, I've had a chance to use it quite a few times, and I was surprisingly happy with the results. Still I might have not tested all possible scenarios (like searching for a song knowing only a part of the lyrics with some errors), so your point obviously stands, thank for pointing this out.
It's not good at matching partial words, and sometimes a song's title only contains very common words, etc. It doesn't deal well with those