re: #331 lawhawk

Google and every search engine is always trying to improve their search capabilities so that they can focus on the relevant and discard those that aren’t. Because narrowing things down improves response time to emerging threats/issues and can let analysts get to what’s needed in a timely fashion.

If you’ve got 1 million documents in a pile, and you’re looking for 1 specific. If you get 1,000 hits, that’s a start, but you need to then identify the 1 out of a 1,000. Improve the search to 1 out 10 returns, and you’ve narrowed things considerably.

Now, multiply all those by hundreds of millions of documents that need to be searched daily. The 1,000 becomes tens of thousands. Or many times more.

All apparently ignored by the dudebros.

The proverbial needle in a pile of needles. But be careful of the search terms that you use, lest some unethical bastard on a House committee decides to make a “scandal” out of you using certain terms and not others.