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Major search engines test every release against a list of search queries. You could start with https://trends.google.com/trends/topcharts. You should have an automated test script with a list of (query, good URL) pairs and make sure the good URL appears in the top few results.

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As preparation for this demo, yes I absolutely should have run such a test. Eagerness won.

Thanks for the link.

Not just for demos, but to help you hack. You can make a small change to the algorithm and re-run the test and see if the score goes up or down. It's very convenient for testing changes deep inside the code.

>Eagerness won. It makes me happy to see a passionate programmer.

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