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I've actually stopped trying to search google for things anymore, because it almost always tried to be clever and totally missed the point. Sounds like I should

• kowdermeister 9y ago
  Can you give some examples you fail to find with Google?
  • tehwalrus 9y ago
    Not right now, I've just done it enough times. It's often when I want to do a search with 6+ words and all of them are important. But because some of them are e.g. "C++ default constructor" google just gives me C++ 101 answers and disregards the rest of my query. The searches had to do with real things as well as programming.
    • TACIXAT 9y ago
      Yea, this one happens a lot. I was getting scope 101 results for something I was searching yesterday. I've basically given up on mobile search, it feels worse there.
  • reitanqild 9y ago
    When a framework you use -has uses a weirdly named something - and Google fuzzes it to something it has a million results for I think this has happened twice, despite of me using both doublequotes and verbatim. I've reported it and they've fixed it shortly afterwards but it is really annoying.
  • Izkata 9y ago
    From this past weekend, I was trying to find a shirt I'd seen another student wear back when I was in highschool (~2004), with what I thought was the phrase "How many plants had to die for your stupid salad?" Just about all the results were for vegan activism, without a hint of it being a joke/phrase. The top result when switching to "verbatim" mode was the joke, standalone, correcting "plants" to "vegetables". (Searching for the correct phrase in either mode got me to a zazzle page with a shirt identical to what I remember, but that's not really relevant to "use verbatim search!")