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Re:uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Googl... by ezekg on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:31PM (#31697088)
I think I remember somewhere that they said a very high percentage of searches are totally unique i.e. never queried before thus not served from cache. I don't think they reword searches like Google does for a higher cache hit rate.
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Re:uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Googl... by howenterprisey on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:02PM (#31698125)
I never thought about that. That could explain a lot. Although I also recall Google themselves saying a lot of their queries are totally unique anyway.
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Re:uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Googl... by ezekg on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:46PM (#31698614)
> Although I also recall Google themselves saying a lot of their queries are totally unique anyway.

Which is probably why search quality is going down. They're rewriting your query to a more common way of saying the same thing, at least according to Google.

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