Google’s success is built upon its Page Rank system of searching, but it may not always deliver the right answer. The first few search results may be misleading. So I found yesterday. I was writing something where I used the phrase, "The devil’s in the detail". And then I wondered whether it should be "The devil’s in the details". Being online, I checked the Free Dictionary. Curiously, the words weren’t there. So I checked Google. It immediately linked to pages containing the words, "The devil’s in the details." No cigar. According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, it should be "the devil’s in the detail".
Maybe, I would have found the right phrase on Google too if I had continued my search. I looked only at the first search results page. But isn’t that what a good search engine supposed to deliver: The right answer immediately?
Google, of course, relies on collective wisdom, the wisdom of the masses. But that’s not always very useful. We need other ways of searching too.
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