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As someone who has been using search engines since the 90's, I've found that the "old-school" way of formatting your search almost like a database query has got
by icyberbullyu 3y ago
As someone who has been using search engines since the 90's, I've found that the "old-school" way of formatting your search almost like a database query has gotten significantly worse. It seems like search engines are geared more towards natural language queries now; probably because the old Google-Fu way of doing things wasn't very friendly for people who didn't use computers regularly.
- klyrs 3y agoMy understanding is that google went from a more traditional database style which supported such queries, to a newer "n-gram" index with a layer of semantic similarity. Notably, you can no longer put a sentence in quotes to only find pages that contain that exact phrase. Also, the order of words matters more now than it used to (where the old search engines treated a space as AND, so order was irrelevant outside of quotes)
- saalweachter 3y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=%22you+can+no+longer+put+a+sentence+in+quotes+to+only+find+pages+that+contain+that+exact+phrase%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22you+can+no+longer+put+a+s...
- klyrs 3y agoHah, perhaps I should edit that to say "reliably."
- interstice 3y agoIf someone brought back a search engine like this i'd happily use it