Objective-driven search is much different: A car with a more efficient engine is always more efficient than a car with a less efficient engine, no matter when either of them was invented. The point is that what’s better and what’s worse doesn’t change when searching for an objective. Because novelty search can’t provide such a consistent notion of bad and good, it also can’t provide an ordering from bad to good. But it does in fact provide a more interesting ordering: from simple to complex.
