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Search is abysmal these days. I'll look for a term with 3 words and it almost always throws out one word, giving me useless results.

nikanj 9y ago
”You searched for Stockholm Syndrome Research. Here’s a bunch of Stockholm travel blogs! They’re just missing two of your keywords, but they’re really popular with other visitors”
- ccozan 9y ago
  I think is possible to have the verbatim option active all the time, but I don't remember how.
  - forgotmypw 9y ago
    Disclaimer: I have not tested these add-ons myself. Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-1/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-1/ Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/verbatim-search/occcfdnjdbgjglcbpolkmjnjillkgbcm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/verbatim-search/oc...
- pasbesoin 9y ago
  And the people who simply accept this have...
  - smoyer 9y ago
    ... gone to Sweden on vacation. More seriously, I think a better analogy is putting a frog in cold water and turning on the stove's burner. Things are much worse but because it happened so slowly, we simply have a "new normal". The change from one day to the next on this time-scale is undiscernable.
    - cge 9y ago
      If you put a frog in cold water and gradually heat the water, the frog will jump out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog). The premise of that analogy is widely considered to be completely false.
      - smoyer 9y ago
        Hmm ... that completely makes sense when they reminded me that amphibians have to regulate their temperatures via ambient conditions. Unfortunately it also completely ruins my analogy (though not my point). Perhaps the analogy should be a free citizen of a democratic society gradually allows corporations to (after being deemed a living entity) slowly distribute all wealth creation to the plutocrats as they go from being solid middle class to a virtual slave in another corporation's giant warehouses.
      - asaph 9y ago
        This underscores the importance of independently reproducing experimental results of others. It's not done often enough.
- IAmEveryone 9y ago
  I just did this search, and at least the first page only had results perfectly matching the query. Try yourself: https://www.google.com/search?q=Stockholm+Syndrome+Research https://www.google.com/search?q=Stockholm+Syndrome+Research
  - mirimir 9y ago
    Same for me. But then, no Google account or cookies for me, so ...
xvf22 9y ago
Quotes still force the word to be included don't they? Though I suppose that still doesn't do much if the algorithm has tossed out the matches you want.

nikanj 9y ago

”You searched for Stockholm Syndrome Research. Here’s a bunch of Stockholm travel blogs! They’re just missing two of your keywords, but they’re really popular with other visitors”

ccozan 9y ago
I think is possible to have the verbatim option active all the time, but I don't remember how.
- forgotmypw 9y ago
  Disclaimer: I have not tested these add-ons myself. Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-1/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-1/ Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/verbatim-search/occcfdnjdbgjglcbpolkmjnjillkgbcm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/verbatim-search/oc...
pasbesoin 9y ago
And the people who simply accept this have...
- smoyer 9y ago
  ... gone to Sweden on vacation. More seriously, I think a better analogy is putting a frog in cold water and turning on the stove's burner. Things are much worse but because it happened so slowly, we simply have a "new normal". The change from one day to the next on this time-scale is undiscernable.
  - cge 9y ago
    If you put a frog in cold water and gradually heat the water, the frog will jump out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog). The premise of that analogy is widely considered to be completely false.
    - smoyer 9y ago
      Hmm ... that completely makes sense when they reminded me that amphibians have to regulate their temperatures via ambient conditions. Unfortunately it also completely ruins my analogy (though not my point). Perhaps the analogy should be a free citizen of a democratic society gradually allows corporations to (after being deemed a living entity) slowly distribute all wealth creation to the plutocrats as they go from being solid middle class to a virtual slave in another corporation's giant warehouses.
    - asaph 9y ago
      This underscores the importance of independently reproducing experimental results of others. It's not done often enough.
IAmEveryone 9y ago
I just did this search, and at least the first page only had results perfectly matching the query. Try yourself: https://www.google.com/search?q=Stockholm+Syndrome+Research https://www.google.com/search?q=Stockholm+Syndrome+Research
- mirimir 9y ago
  Same for me. But then, no Google account or cookies for me, so ...

xvf22 9y ago

Quotes still force the word to be included don't they? Though I suppose that still doesn't do much if the algorithm has tossed out the matches you want.