Here's an article that summarizes the issue: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-deletes-queries-replace-36165.html https://www.seroundtable.com/google-deletes

Here's an article that summarizes the issue: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-deletes-queries-replace-36165.html https://www.seroundtable.com/google-deletes-queries-replace-... Personally, I dislike this approach by Google (from their response): > "It’s no secret that Google Search looks beyond the specific words in a query to better understand their meaning, in order to show relevant organic results. This is a helpful process that we’ve written about many times." This is patronizing, manipulative, and condescending - and 'organic'? They've also been boosting low-quality corporate media outlets to the top of their search rankings for some years now (Youtube search is far, far worse incidentally), as well - part of this 'daddy knows best' mentality, I'm sure. Google does provide a 'verbatim' option under its tools heading but this is incompatible with time-restricted searching, although perhaps not on the advanced search page. Practically I find that to get what I want from Google (search results from a broad range of sources) you have to jump through many hoops and write complicated queries for no reason other than to avoid their enshittification defaults, and that's a time-consuming process. It makes Kagi look more and more attractive, certainly - the time-saving alone might be worth the monthly fee.