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I feel like Google has often turned strict commands into fuzzy searching, maybe for a decade? I never heard a clear explanation as to why, I just imagined that
by brownbat 7y ago
I feel like Google has often turned strict commands into fuzzy searching, maybe for a decade?
I never heard a clear explanation as to why, I just imagined that it was some sort of A/B tested paternalism. Maybe most users really want fuzzy searches when using the commands I use for a strict search.
- drivebycomment 7y agoI think it's simply a human bias in action - people don't realize when their queries benefit from the "fuzzy matching", and they only notice/remember when they don't get what they want from search and then (often mistakenly) blame fuzzy matching for it as that's what's visible to them.