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Comment by enlyth

Has anyone found that recently Google search is becoming more and more useless?

Google tends to ignore what I actually type in, and tries to search according to some weird NLP machine learning inference on what it thinks I'm actually trying to ask.

Top results will include maybe 50-75% of the words I actually typed in, and it will treat the rest as mere hints or related words.

My queries end up looking like this after several tries and fails:

"something" "another phrase" "also" "this"

If I type the whole phrase without quotes I just get a bunch of ads, blog spam, and irrelevant stuff that is pretending to be useful.

Hell, most dev-related queries will return shallow medium-style blog articles instead of SO / Github.

parent enlyth 7 years ago

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