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Google has absolutely changed in the past 10 years. Have you tried looking for something obscure recently? Google increasingly over time takes more and more l
by WalterGR 9y ago
Google has absolutely changed in the past 10 years. Have you tried looking for something obscure recently? Google increasingly over time takes more and more liberties with your search terms, regardless of operator use.
I notice that one of the pages you link to is from 2012. Again, the old ways just don't cut it any more. Since it doesn't even mention Google's "Verbatim" search option, it suggests to me that while its content might be technically correct, it's useless to hand-wave towards it as the cure for contemporary complaints about Google's results.
- wyck 9y agoSorry to be clear, I meant that to find information you always had to do bit of digging, it's true the algorithm has changed a lot.
- gkya 9y agoNot only the algorithm. Recently, using double quotes or plus sign before terms became useless, as it just lists results with the specific word you marked crossed over when there are not much exact hits.
- Izkata 9y ago> Recently, using [..] plus sign before terms became useless Unless it came back at some point, it wasn't very recent - it was intentionally removed in 2011 due to their using "+" for their social network.
- loxs 9y agoTell me about it. I am an Erlang programmer and I am currently learning OCaml... It's extremely hard to find OCaml topics, as Google bombards me with Erlang results. This certainly was not like this 10 years ago.