&gt; I don&#x27;t see this case as a particular problem. &quot;People wanting to learn about goats&quot; might actually be in the minority.<p>This is the problem. Search isn&#x27;t a democracy. I lookup the results <i>I need</i>, so not giving me filtering ability makes no sense. An engine that does what google does is an amazing achievement, but no longer makes sense as a model for the exact reason you gave as a defense.<p>edit: If disagreement could be verbalized it would be super helpful to me. I have been thinking about this issue a lot, and often I see people say the same thing as me:<p>* single website controls almost 100% of english language results<p>* limiting of images&#x2F;video from results<p>* incorrect&#x2F;wrong results<p>* limited respect for boolean and quotation operators<p>* high ranking sites are not authoritative, e.g. w3schools, wordpress automated blogs.<p>* no way to filter at all<p>But then down vote my conclusion:<p>&gt; searches could be filtered and parameters set by user.<p>Really would be useful to understand my logic error, or if I have missed something.