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Re:Ask HN: Are AI language models making search engines unus... by sirdavidof on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:13PM (#31046547)
It’s very subjective, but I feel this too. It’s like in adding ML, search has sacrificed precision.

For example, adding ‘-‘ no longer seems to work for excluding terms. Yesterday I searched for “digital agency” and then “digital agency -marketing”. The latter had 3x more results than the former.

Google can be great when I don’t quite know the right term for what I’m looking for, but often when I need something very specific I get nowhere.

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Re:Ask HN: Are AI language models making search engines unus... by gitgud on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:00PM (#31046986)
The - symbol does still work, I think you need to place it outside of the quotes though.

I just got 29m results for

    "digital agency"
And 14m results for

    "digital agency" -marketing
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Re:Ask HN: Are AI language models making search engines unus... by nieve on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:54PM (#31047440)
The Google Search team officially considers -, "", and so forth to be optional signals from the user. I find Google ignoring - with pretty high frequency.
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