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A comment on Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a... by DarkWiiPlayer on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:18AM (#19133322)
Because people are dumb and type in entire questions or sentences, so google tries to be "smart" and remove words that hold no real meaning.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a... by TomMarius on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:26AM (#19133365)
Actually I think it's useful to google whole questions - for forum thread titles. The problem of course is that Google does not search for the whole thing and wrapping it in quotes makes it useless as well.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a... by brazzledazzle on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:36AM (#19133419)
Asterisks within quotes still seem to work. I use those when I have a good idea of what string I’m looking for but I’m not sure about some words or want to find posts where someone (for whatever weird reason) apparently typed in or pasted an error in chunks.
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