> All of the links in the second screenshot are wildly irrelevant to what he's looking for In fact, if you look at the results with "deluge.app" and "retina" i

> All of the links in the second screenshot are wildly irrelevant to what he's looking for In fact, if you look at the results with "deluge.app" and "retina" in quotes, there are no results that he would be looking for. I think this article misses its own point: it's not that the results are worse, it's that what he actually wanted was for google to tell him there were no results, not to realize there were no results and so expand his search for him. There are two choices that google can make in this type of situation, show you that there are no results for your search terms (helpful in this situation but not when there are obvious synonyms that do have results ("help" vs "aid" example in the article)) or google could expand your search to include synonyms or not contain all terms (helpful when there are lots of useful results close to your terms in search space, not so helpful when you're looking for something very very specific). I'd imagine it's incredibly hard to tell the difference between these situations with just a few words as a query, but if I had to bet, I'd guess they probably hit some useful level a large portion of the time. It's not clear the problem is universally solvable, however, and going back to add quotes to terms is annoying to type. We're probably never going to get the beloved + operator back, so how about just making verbatim search much quicker to toggle, google? (I'd settle for a more consistently triggered "Search instead for [original search term]" at the top of the results)