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It's definitely deteriorating, and the worst part is that it completely ignores quotes if it thinks you meant something else, and shows the results for what it

by CLLD 5y ago

It's definitely deteriorating, and the worst part is that it completely ignores quotes if it thinks you meant something else, and shows the results for what it thinks you want. Completely useless in a lot of cases

IAmEveryone 5y ago
Google corrects spelling in the way you mention, but removes quotes only if there are zero results for the search with quotes. Example, finding one result; https://www.google.de/search?q=%22but+when+therefore+is+an+adverb%22&client=safari&hl=en&sxsrf=AOaemvLLtbbNenjHpwNLAZYVeltkdwS_PQ%3A1641869886727&ei=PvLcYYPiK_Sy8gLppbCwAw&oq=%22but+when+therefore+is+an+adverb%22&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAM6BwgAEEcQsAM6BAgAEA06BAgeEApKBAhBGABQ3i5Yoj1goEZoAXABeACAAVqIAfgFkgEBOZgBAKABAcgBCMABAQ&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp https://www.google.de/search?q=%22but+when+therefore+is+an+a... Getting this wrong is probably why people think we need more than definitive assertions from people operating from subjective impression. Changing a letter in the query, it says, right at the top: Showing results for "but when therefore is an adverb" No results found for "but when therefore is tan adverb"
- CLLD 5y ago
  This has only happened to me twice so far, but it has given me the "Did you mean:" even when using quotes for searches that definitely have results (as I found them with duckduckgo). I can't remember what they were now
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- google234123 5y ago
  This isn’t completely true, Google search is very complicated and definitely had the ability to rewrite queries in some cases.
- eitland 5y ago
  This seems to depend on a lot. I rarely see "No results found". That is a completely valid result in my opinion. I often see pages that doesn't contain my search string. Sometimes is is something trivial like query: "something about x y and z" result contains: "... something about x. Y and Z however..." which is understandable. Often though I have no clue how a result got there. Maybe it is linked to using a certain text (link bombing)? I don't know.
- michaelt 5y ago
  I have an Intel Realsense camera, which sometimes reports the error "Failed to recconect" (there being a typo in the drivers) [1] - that's a pretty unique error, so in combination with the product name that should be a very easy keyword search, right? But no, when I search for realsense "failed to recconect" Google returns pages that contain neither realsense nor recconect [2]. They offer me a supreme court opinion, a review of a car dealership, and a facebook church service. Correcting the spelling of a query is one thing - but also completely ignoring other keywords? I can see why there are so many people posting about the poor quality of Google's search results. [1] https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/blob/5ff27fca5aaeec4736d6bb3bfb958fee82ee198b/src/pipeline/pipeline.cpp#L263 https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/blob/5ff27fca... [2] https://imgur.com/a/okYV5V2 https://imgur.com/a/okYV5V2
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by CLLD 5y ago

IAmEveryone 5y ago

Google corrects spelling in the way you mention, but removes quotes only if there are zero results for the search with quotes. Example, finding one result; https://www.google.de/search?q=%22but+when+therefore+is+an+adverb%22&client=safari&hl=en&sxsrf=AOaemvLLtbbNenjHpwNLAZYVeltkdwS_PQ%3A1641869886727&ei=PvLcYYPiK_Sy8gLppbCwAw&oq=%22but+when+therefore+is+an+adverb%22&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAM6BwgAEEcQsAM6BAgAEA06BAgeEApKBAhBGABQ3i5Yoj1goEZoAXABeACAAVqIAfgFkgEBOZgBAKABAcgBCMABAQ&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp https://www.google.de/search?q=%22but+when+therefore+is+an+a... Getting this wrong is probably why people think we need more than definitive assertions from people operating from subjective impression. Changing a letter in the query, it says, right at the top: Showing results for "but when therefore is an adverb" No results found for "but when therefore is tan adverb"

CLLD 5y ago
This has only happened to me twice so far, but it has given me the "Did you mean:" even when using quotes for searches that definitely have results (as I found them with duckduckgo). I can't remember what they were now
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google234123 5y ago
This isn’t completely true, Google search is very complicated and definitely had the ability to rewrite queries in some cases.
eitland 5y ago
This seems to depend on a lot. I rarely see "No results found". That is a completely valid result in my opinion. I often see pages that doesn't contain my search string. Sometimes is is something trivial like query: "something about x y and z" result contains: "... something about x. Y and Z however..." which is understandable. Often though I have no clue how a result got there. Maybe it is linked to using a certain text (link bombing)? I don't know.
michaelt 5y ago
I have an Intel Realsense camera, which sometimes reports the error "Failed to recconect" (there being a typo in the drivers) [1] - that's a pretty unique error, so in combination with the product name that should be a very easy keyword search, right? But no, when I search for realsense "failed to recconect" Google returns pages that contain neither realsense nor recconect [2]. They offer me a supreme court opinion, a review of a car dealership, and a facebook church service. Correcting the spelling of a query is one thing - but also completely ignoring other keywords? I can see why there are so many people posting about the poor quality of Google's search results. [1] https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/blob/5ff27fca5aaeec4736d6bb3bfb958fee82ee198b/src/pipeline/pipeline.cpp#L263 https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/blob/5ff27fca... [2] https://imgur.com/a/okYV5V2 https://imgur.com/a/okYV5V2

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