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I don’t think they removed the results from index, but I believe they started searching for vectors instead of text matches. Your ids are nowhere in vector spac

I don’t think they removed the results from index, but I believe they started searching for vectors instead of text matches. Your ids are nowhere in vector space.

WirelessGigabit 3y ago
Is this why back in the day if you typed in 2 works it would show results with those 2 works and how the majority of time just the first? When I'm looking for a technical solution I combine words. But Google gives me the middle finger, returns results for the first one which is like 'Windows Service' only to show me a generic website which has a download link for every KB number out there.
- wodenokoto 3y ago
  For the query “where is Microsoft headquarters” they want to return results with phrases like “Microsoft is located at …” This makes non technical question-answering easier, to the chagrin of every techie. I think your problem is a mix between a lot of things, but mostly it seems to be SEO farming.
jkukul 3y ago
Shouldn't it be possible to work around this by wrapping the query in double quotes? Google promises to do an exact match search when wrapping in quotes. So I'd imagine the OP's query should work when the image id is wrapped in double quotes. Otherwise, it'd mean that it's not in the index anymore.
- llamaLord 3y ago
  Except Google lies. It's like trying to write a Gmail filter with the "=" and then a word wrapped in quotes. You would THINK that would be a strict X = Y... but it's not. At some point a few years ago the Gmail team made the "=" operator a "fuzzy equals", so for example it matches on parts of a word, even if you explicitly say you want to filter a word with a space at the end because it's "close enough". Drives me fucking mental - I have an email filter that instantly archives every email from Jira except those that have my user name in the body of the notification (meaning someone has tagged me). In Outlook I simple filter for "my_username " (with a space at the end), and it's able to tell the difference between that and my email address. In Gmail, "my_username " somehow matches both "my_username" and "my_username@email.com"... meaning EVERY FUCKING EMAIL I GET MATCHES THE CRITERIA.
- foobarbecue 3y ago
  Yep, I tried with double quotes, both times.

I don’t think they removed the results from index, but I believe they started searching for vectors instead of text matches. Your ids are nowhere in vector space.

WirelessGigabit 3y ago

Is this why back in the day if you typed in 2 works it would show results with those 2 works and how the majority of time just the first? When I'm looking for a technical solution I combine words. But Google gives me the middle finger, returns results for the first one which is like 'Windows Service' only to show me a generic website which has a download link for every KB number out there.

wodenokoto 3y ago
For the query “where is Microsoft headquarters” they want to return results with phrases like “Microsoft is located at …” This makes non technical question-answering easier, to the chagrin of every techie. I think your problem is a mix between a lot of things, but mostly it seems to be SEO farming.

jkukul 3y ago

Shouldn't it be possible to work around this by wrapping the query in double quotes? Google promises to do an exact match search when wrapping in quotes. So I'd imagine the OP's query should work when the image id is wrapped in double quotes. Otherwise, it'd mean that it's not in the index anymore.

llamaLord 3y ago
Except Google lies. It's like trying to write a Gmail filter with the "=" and then a word wrapped in quotes. You would THINK that would be a strict X = Y... but it's not. At some point a few years ago the Gmail team made the "=" operator a "fuzzy equals", so for example it matches on parts of a word, even if you explicitly say you want to filter a word with a space at the end because it's "close enough". Drives me fucking mental - I have an email filter that instantly archives every email from Jira except those that have my user name in the body of the notification (meaning someone has tagged me). In Outlook I simple filter for "my_username " (with a space at the end), and it's able to tell the difference between that and my email address. In Gmail, "my_username " somehow matches both "my_username" and "my_username@email.com"... meaning EVERY FUCKING EMAIL I GET MATCHES THE CRITERIA.
foobarbecue 3y ago
Yep, I tried with double quotes, both times.