Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?

Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by marginalia_nu on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:43AM (#30085987)

Google's moved to vector search, which doesn't lend itself to keyword prioritization in the same way classic keyword search does. I think that's 90% of the problem.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by skinkestek on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:31AM (#30087599)

So finally I have a name for the utter madness that hit Google a decade ago?

Vector search is that the thing that makes it ignore my search query and search for something else?

Also, is this the problem Bing has?

And is it much much cheaper since they choose to use only use something so utterly ridiculously broken?

Edit: I'm obviously exaggerating heavily here but this has cost me so much time and frustration.

I agree with others: if pages exist that contains the exact matches why don't return them first?

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