Tbh this stuff is less rigid than it used to be. I’ve been finding searches increasingly do “did you mean xyz” without actually saying that or giving me the option to correct, just replacing entire strings in my query with more common strings silently.
Yeah, I know people were talking about Google getting really really bad by like 2018, and honestly I experienced almost no changes in day to day usage up until they decided to just forcibly mainline the Lying Machine into every search which was only 2 years ago.
Tbh this stuff is less rigid than it used to be. I’ve been finding searches increasingly do “did you mean xyz” without actually saying that or giving me the option to correct, just replacing entire strings in my query with more common strings silently.
Yeah, I know people were talking about Google getting really really bad by like 2018, and honestly I experienced almost no changes in day to day usage up until they decided to just forcibly mainline the Lying Machine into every search which was only 2 years ago.
I haven’t used Google in more than a decade, when they changed ‘-’ to stop meaning strictly exclude but duckduckgo increasingly has this problem.
yeah idk what version of google other people are using but it’s been fucking forever since quotes or booleans were respected
Uhhh, this one. https://www.google.com/advanced_search