Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?
by int_19h on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:04PM
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Indeed! It's got to the point where I have to quote like 80% of the keywords in my query, just so that it doesn't throw them away. Because if I do not, I've had cases where it would throw away 2 out of 3 keywords for some results - and, as you say, it's usually the less generic ones that get thrown out.
Even worse, sometimes instead of striking them out, it substitutes them with "synonyms" that are anything but. For example, if you search for FreeBSD, you sometimes get results where "linux" is highlighted as a keyword. I'm pretty sure that this is some ML crap doing this, because the more obscure the term, the more likely it is to get it not just wrong, but hilariously wrong, even to the point of meaning the opposite.
Even worse, sometimes instead of striking them out, it substitutes them with "synonyms" that are anything but. For example, if you search for FreeBSD, you sometimes get results where "linux" is highlighted as a keyword. I'm pretty sure that this is some ML crap doing this, because the more obscure the term, the more likely it is to get it not just wrong, but hilariously wrong, even to the point of meaning the opposite.