Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
by IncRnd on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:37PM
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Correct, though it is new in the sense of this conversation, which compares to how a search used to be.
The point wasn't as to what the synonyms were for a specific search term but that they have been added as implicit terms, which makes google search no longer exact.
If you search for ["test" -test] you'll get no results; quoting "test" removes the synonyms.
It's probably not new behavior per se, but synonyms have gotten a lot broader over the years, so it was a lot easier to punch [term -term] ten years ago and hit a term which had no synonyms.