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I often search for titles containing very specific acronyms or abbreviations (which I would expect to be high precision low recall); Google's first response lat
by 082349872349872 3y ago
I often search for titles containing very specific acronyms or abbreviations (which I would expect to be high precision low recall); Google's first response lately is usually a search based on a "correction" of these to a more common search, presumably because they are biasing to low precision high recall. (eg band names, even at hamming distance, will shadow maths structures)
Clicking again on my original query, or liberal use of quotation marks, then does the trick, but it's annoying af. Maybe there's a setting somewhere for "show me the results of my query first, not the 'did you mean' first"?
EDIT: upon reflection, the problem is that I use Google in an early XXI manner: if I've been someplace before I use the URL bar, and it's for places I haven't been, that aren't common knowledge, that I want a search engine. There was a time when Google was optimised for this use case, and although that time is long past (in particular, no one buys ads for my queries), the annoyance is recent because now they actively pessimise.