For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by tomatofrank on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:15PM (#30215980)

"like you didn't care I don't know why lyrics r&b" was my query

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by nkurz on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:38PM (#30216150)

It would be nice if this worked, but in Google's defense, this is an odd combination of an exact search phrase of common words and then a couple categorical terms that don't have to actually appear on the page. If you help it by searching for just the quoted phrase you want without the additional terms it puts the result you want both as the top result and in a pullout at the top of the page: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22like+you+didn%27t+care+I+...

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by Lewton on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:45AM (#30218807)

But google used to be able to handle cases like this without quotes...

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by tomatofrank on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:44PM (#30216189)

Haha yeah, I was wondering when someone would suggest this. Last night, after I got the result back immediately from DuckDuckGo and Bing, I returned to Google and added quotes around the lyric itself, and it returned the right result immediately.

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by nitrogen on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:40PM (#30216164)

A simple keyword search wouldn't get so confused.

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by gfxgirl on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:31PM (#30216474)

I'm going to point to this from yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185229

It's easy to judge but AFAIK if they prioritize order it's possible more searches come up with bad results than good. That doesn't mean they shouldn't try to do better but we, or a least I, really have no idea which is better, on average, order dependent or order independent.

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by rhizome on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:24PM (#30216427)

Or if they assumed the order was meaningful, which they apparently don't.

They only hire the best of the best!

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by CRConrad on Sunday February 13, 2022 @08:27AM (#30321614)

What, did you really have 'lyrics r&b' inside the double quotes? That's not part of the phrase in the lyrics (I'd guess), so your own fault then.

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by fsckboy on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:52AM (#30218113)

I wouldn't expect that "r&b" would help the query.

and DDG, first result

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=like+you+didn%27t+care+I+do...

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by heavyset_go on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:46PM (#30216204)

Was it Save Your Tears by The Weeknd?

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by tomatofrank on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:49PM (#30216221)

Yup! The version I was looking for was a slowed & reverb version that I later found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkXCAKgqD3M

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by heavyset_go on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:55PM (#30216259)

I was able to find it with this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22like+you+didn%27t+care+I+...

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by gundmc on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:30PM (#30216096)

Wow, same results here. That's pretty poor.

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by deanCommie on Saturday February 05, 2022 @03:23AM (#30218994)

Weirdly the problem is "r&b". If you take that off you get the song immediately...

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