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I've also had several fights with google over my refinements. If I search for 2 words, odds are stupidly high that most of the results will NOT include one of

I've also had several fights with google over my refinements. If I search for 2 words, odds are stupidly high that most of the results will NOT include one of my two words. Thanks Google, for deciding I didn't really mean to type that. I follow up with added quotes, etc to enforce what I actually typed, so there will be a lot of Google-induced churn. Google has focused so highly on the peak that more and more searches - certainly the majority of mine - have been relegated to the long tail.

duxup 7y ago
Yeah I have that problem. -something react something something- Google gives me some results without react and asks if I want to include the word I typed in the box for reasons. Like Google I KNOW the words are popular without "react", that's why I included react to narrow the results. Thanks for ruining my search for me....
bitL 7y ago
DuckDuckGo is lately behaving the same way... Time to find another alternative I guess.
- Semaphor 7y ago
  DDG is worse, sadly. Unlike Google, they don't tell you they ignored part of your query. And for Google forcing a term is a strong signal and it will show to in the snippet most of the time. For DDG forcing a term is a weak signal and it will often not show up in the snippet and sometimes not at all. I love DDG because of their bangs, but their "let me tell you what you actually wanted to search for"-attitude is pissing me off.
- ilikehurdles 7y ago
  It is. At least google still provides "verbatim" mode, which is annoying to enable and still doesn't work some of the time, but DDG has no alternative. So if I search for "mispselling" for example, with double-quotes around it, 0% of the results contain my word and DDG doesn't even mention that it altered my search term. I know this is a bad example, but I've encountered it in the past with legitimate searches where I need results for some acronym or product whose name is close to another common word.
anotheracc 7y ago
Preach ergothus - it's making me crazy.
dajohnson89 7y ago
google really needs to fix this problem. it's driving a lot of us mad.

duxup 7y ago

Yeah I have that problem. -something react something something- Google gives me some results without react and asks if I want to include the word I typed in the box for reasons. Like Google I KNOW the words are popular without "react", that's why I included react to narrow the results. Thanks for ruining my search for me....

bitL 7y ago

DuckDuckGo is lately behaving the same way... Time to find another alternative I guess.

Semaphor 7y ago
DDG is worse, sadly. Unlike Google, they don't tell you they ignored part of your query. And for Google forcing a term is a strong signal and it will show to in the snippet most of the time. For DDG forcing a term is a weak signal and it will often not show up in the snippet and sometimes not at all. I love DDG because of their bangs, but their "let me tell you what you actually wanted to search for"-attitude is pissing me off.
ilikehurdles 7y ago
It is. At least google still provides "verbatim" mode, which is annoying to enable and still doesn't work some of the time, but DDG has no alternative. So if I search for "mispselling" for example, with double-quotes around it, 0% of the results contain my word and DDG doesn't even mention that it altered my search term. I know this is a bad example, but I've encountered it in the past with legitimate searches where I need results for some acronym or product whose name is close to another common word.

anotheracc 7y ago

Preach ergothus - it's making me crazy.

dajohnson89 7y ago

google really needs to fix this problem. it's driving a lot of us mad.