does searching politely make a difference?
Does politeness matter when you’re creating your queries?
I tried taking a look at how “please” changed a whole bunch of searches. “Microsoft” returned the company website, of course, but “Microsoft Please” returned all sorts of links from customers or customer advocates. Same with “Google” and “Google please.” My own company returned a slightly embarrassing “please try again later” page from our company domain.
“jessamyn please” takes me to the librarian.net contact form. Neat.
