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I hate how smart it tries to be. Sometimes you need to search an intentional misspelling, say, "Aple" (just an example), Google will helpfully try to correct y
by 1_player 5y ago
I hate how smart it tries to be.
Sometimes you need to search an intentional misspelling, say, "Aple" (just an example), Google will helpfully try to correct you with "did you mean Apple?", and even if you put the word in quotes you still get results for Apple, not my intentionally misspelled search. Listen to what I'm trying to tell you, dumb machine.
They've tweaked it so it only respond to what it thinks you want to search, not what you've asked of it, and there's no way around it.
Computers are so much better when they take your input literally.
- cromwellian 5y agoI tried your example both with and without quotes and I got Apple Hospitality which seems to be correct. Humans make so many typos that for the majority of people, autocorrecting is a net win.
- _tnyw 5y agoI wish there was a mode for "do as I ask"
- DeathArrow 5y agoThey have it. It is called verbatim search. Just that it doesn't do what it is supposed to.
- gremIin 5y agoSo they don't have it.
- skinkestek 5y ago> I wish there was a mode for "do as I ask" There is verbatim and back in the day this is also what doublequotes meant. Google has gotten away by blaming it on spam since back when matt_cutts was here, but I fail to see how spam can possibly be the reason why neither doublequotes nor verbatim works (edit:) unless spammers have found their way into Googles ranking algorithm to neuter all exact match operators.
- toyg 5y agoThey should call it sudo. It would be an absolute hit.
- 1_player 5y agoThey had it. The fact it doesn't work anymore is probably because some big brains at Google strongly believe that their AI knows better. Such hubris is the reason why Google sucks today and it absolutely rocked 20 years ago.
- 1_player 5y agoI knew someone would try, which is why I specified this was just an example, I'm sure this time with that made up word it works, but when it doesn't it's pretty obvious and infuriating. And autocorrect is a net loss if you can't correct the autocorrect.
- banana_giraffe 5y agoThe smartness gets me, especially with the image search. It used to be pretty useful. Now Google seems to really want me to see what its ML model thinks is in the image. No, when I upload a picture of an actor, I'm not trying to search for pictures of "adult" or "man". Or, my recent favorite that had three people in the image, a suggested search for "sharing".
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- Kiro 5y agoWhy not use a real example instead of "Aple" (which returns what you expect: the stock for Apple Hospitality REIT)? Shouldn't be hard at all if this really is such a common problem.
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- Kye 5y agoI can't speak for others, but I move on in frustration. I don't meticulously document Google's myriad failures. Even if I dove into my search history to find one, odds are good you wouldn't have the same experience. And the divergence would increase with time and further training of the AI, to the point that even I wouldn't get the same result.