> I remember laughing at people (in the late '90s) who tried to search the Internet with English-language queries: how do i cook pancakes without butter vs panc

> I remember laughing at people (in the late '90s) who tried to search the Internet with English-language queries: how do i cook pancakes without butter vs pancakes +"no butter" Are you sure it's only the technological advance that's responsible for that? I've always written search terms like that because I figured the search engine isn't some ai that's answering my question. Instead it's a program searching a database of sorts and by searching for what I think other might have searched for I'm able to get similar results.