I play a game with google search: I take something very mainstream like a movie title, let's say 'Reservoir Dogs' And change something in it, to say 'Reservoir Cats' for example.

Google search 'reservoir cats' and it will completely ignore what you actually search for in favor of the mainstream result. The effect is basically that you can't sesrch for 'reservoir cats'!

Even putting something opposite or unrelated to the highly mainstream result will have no effect.

Its completely entirely ridiculous and makes the search engine seem like a facade.

I love this game. Great idea!

Side note: both duckduckgo and google gave me correct results for that specific search. Turns out "reservoir cats" is a movie and a simpsons episode.

Although I'm familiar with your point, I literally just searched for the term you mentioned, navigated all the way to page 6 and every single result was specifically for Reservoir Cats proper, none of them even mentioned Reservoir Dogs in the title, only in the description for some of them.

the same, maybe someone at google read this and fixed it reaaalllly quick.

If I search for Palp fiction it shows me pulp fiction results but asks if I really meant Palp fiction, if I say yeah I really meant that it shows me Palp fiction with a message did you really mean pulp fiction.

on edit: some of the palp fiction is headline palp friction.

I’ve noticed this but only recently began to feel like the behavior was different, I wonder how strong the correction is now relative to the past

Reservoir Cats is actually a movie! I feel like I've slipped into an alternative time stream.

You just got me something for the weekend. :)

There is an actual term defined for this. Not search high-jacking...I can't remember.

In cases like that, it often ignores words even after double quoting them.

We ignored your search query and showed you results our highest paying customers / advertisers paid us to show you instead.

I don't know of a good general internet search engine, so I tend to stick to the sites I know will provide answers that'll work for me, which is a shame for discovering new content.

I searched diving suit thickness and it provides to correct information as the first result...the diving suit thickness for different temperatures. Not sure why you are not getting that information

Odd. When I try that search[1] I'm seeing good results. There's a onebox telling me how thick a suit I need for different temperatures, followed by a bunch of articles on the topic.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=diving+suit+thickness&rlz=1C...