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Will they also stop ignoring search terms, and stop their idiotic algorithmic aliasing of search terms? When searching for Robert Jenkins Park, I am not lookin
by b112 3y ago
Will they also stop ignoring search terms, and stop their idiotic algorithmic aliasing of search terms?
When searching for Robert Jenkins Park, I am not looking for Bob Jenkins the person. Google needs to stop aliasing, and stop dropping search terms.
Google values giving gibberish over giving nothing, and nothing they do will help with irrelevant results, until the revert back to 2008 search behaviour.
- _heimdall 3y agoThat's more a question of defaults, right? I'd hope adding quotes around Robert Jenkins Park would avoid aliasing. If so, then they optimized for aliasing being the default with a simple way to avoid it for the (presumably) uncommon case. If aliasing was off by default, what would be a similar syntax to indicate that you actually want it on for a search?
- dpkirchner 3y agoObviously, IMO, it should be possible to disable aliasing and term-guessing account-wide. Then, I propose supporting a leading "?" that lets you reenable fuzzy/loose matching. Something like: "?robert jenkins park" (without quotes).
- _heimdall 3y agoThat syntax would impact the entire query, meaning you couldn't have it only fuzzy match a portion if the search term. A global flag seems reasonable if enough people would want it, though that is dependent on users being authenticated with preferences stored on the server.
- tourist2d 3y ago[dead]