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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
A search engines goal is to make the person performing the search happy.
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I'd disagree there.
In my experience a search engine's goal is to make themselves as much money as possible.
You need to give 'adequate' search results at a bare minimum of course. Google was simply better than the other SE's before they went public and so they dominated and now everyone is used to using google which is why they still dominate. Their search results are about par with bing - at least that's been my experience over the last few years - and not nearly as good as they used to be.
As for owing webmaster's something, I agree they don't when it comes to websearch but they do when it came to stealing bandwidth (google images) from webmasters, and taking webmaster content and displaying it themselves (in certain cases) instead of leading the surfer to the content source.