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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by anonymoushn on Friday August 05, 2022 @06:41AM (#32354192)
So in the year 2000 and in the year 2022, for any web page, when that page is crawled the same text would end up in the index? No observable changes were made to the process of computing the text to put into the index from the page in those 22 years?

> we didn't make any change *in terms of retrieval*

Users don't care which part of the system was changed to cause the results to be worse.

It looks like maybe your reply is only about what changes recently shipped and are mentioned in the blog post. A lot of the discussion in this comment section is about changes much older than these changes.

Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by dannysullivan on Monday August 08, 2022 @06:46AM (#32384065)
Yes, we didn't make any changes in how quotes retrieve content with the announcement we made. We changed how we show snippets for quoted searches.