Google Semantic Search Shift

In general, google no longer primarily searches what you asked them but for what they think you want. This might be better for the average user but can be extremely frustrating when you are trying to find something more niche.

Consider that the vast majority of users are not like you and they need help using the right search terms. Searching used to be an art and I vividly recall a lot of folks struggle to articulate in search query terms what they were looking for. Nowadays those types of people find what they're looking for at the cost of you not being able to treat it like a command line interface. I'm sure Google has the data to back up that it's a net gain. You're welcome to use whatever you&#

Yeah, that's just not a type of query my search engine is particularly good at. It's pretty dumb, and just tries to match as much of the webpage against the query as it can.This used to be how all search engines worked, but I guess people have been taught by google that they should ask questions now, instead of search for terms.I wonder how I can guide people to make more suitable queries. Maybe I should just make it look less like google.

no you are an edge case the rest of the world ie non tech users prefer the way google understands the queries and answers them.

This is very helpful if I search for a name I didn't quite pick up or don't know how to spell, or if I only remember fragments of a quote or topic, then I just blurt out my stream of consciousness and Google will mostly point me in the right direction. That being said, I wish I could explicitly tell Google to treat my query more literally. Ideally you would be able specify the search query in some kind of grammar. They have these kinds of prompt mechanics for GPT3, so I doesn't se

Is there? I feel like google has optimised heavily for the caveman input rather than the enlightened search warrior nowadays

Learn to use a search engine. Why did this become a lost skill? You can tell it exactly what you want it to find using quotes or explicitly stating a locality.

I would pay more than that for a version of Google which searches exactly for what I input like in the old days, and doesn't try to guess what I'm trying to search for with some nonsense NLP while ignoring half of my query

The author is not using a "search" engine, Google is a recommendation engine.

Because not everyone thinks in search operator keywords.