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it s really a mess. Searching for 'viper' brings up 'Viber' as the first result, the rest is cars except for a link to 'viperidae'. It's a goddamn snake, google


Just add another word "viper snake" and the problem is solved. I don't see the problem. You wouldn't shout "viper" at a random person and expect them to correctly guess you're talking about a snake at first guess.


I mean, I’d assume it was a snake. Not sure what else I’d assume they were talking about.

Also, Google isn’t a person. I wouldn’t expect someone to understand what I’m trying to say if I yelled “site Colin stackoverflow.com fizz buzz” at them either.

The bigger issue is that Google didn’t even interpret “viper” as any form of “viper” at all and instead corrected it to a nonsense word that’s a company name.


> I mean, I’d assume it was a snake. Not sure what else I’d assume they were talking about.

Shout it at me and I'd be fifty-fifty whether it's a snake or a car (the Dodge V-10) you mean. But I'm a car nut; I'd assume for normal (English-speaking) people the snake would be the obvious default meaning.


English is not my native, i wasn't sure it's a snake


Eugh yes. This is getting worse and worse so rapidly. If your search term happens to also be a currently popular song or artist then you may as well skip ahead a couple of pages.


Same thing if there's a movie adaptation of the book you're looking for.


For me it's a different results bubble, but still a mess: Dodge Viper, a brand of booze, a tattoo parlor, two different video-game characters called "viper", a "tactical clothing" store, a Go library, a bar, a TV series, an iOS design pattern. To get actual snakes I have to search for "vipers".


Gaming mice?


Looks fine to me

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