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It's very obvious Google is no longer the equivalent of grepping the web. There's some ML/NLP interpretation that's rewarded for returning the substring/interpr
by mikevin 5y ago
It's very obvious Google is no longer the equivalent of grepping the web. There's some ML/NLP interpretation that's rewarded for returning the substring/interpretation that returns the most/highest ranking results.
It's very noticeable if your search contains a short keyword that has to interpreted in the context of the other keywords. As an example, if I search for 'ARM assembly' plus another keyword (macro, syntax etc) it will see 'ARM assembly' without the extra keyword has way more high ranking results and happily show me how much it knows about armchairs that don't require assembly. Ignoring the fact that the extra keywords are there specifically to limit the search results.
It's tiring, a lot of time I previously spent browsing the limited but valuable results it returned I now have to spend mangling the keywords enough to outsmart their ML/NLP interpretation and get it to admit I am actually asking for the thing I am asking for so I can finally get to the part where I have to solve the modern captcha: click all the results that are:
1. Not stolen/rehosted
2. Not a "Hello World" level Medium blog
3. Written by an actual human