We're improving search results when you use quotes

Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by thrwyoilarticle on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:23PM (#32358316)

Goodhart's law in action. If the most relevant doc doesn't include all terms but there are docs that do, the 'relevant' metric is wrong.

I understand eliding articles and pronouns but when I'm searching for an exact string or you just completely ignore whole subjects and objects - what?

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by colinmhayes on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:57PM (#32358781)

When you’re searching for an exact string you should use quotes…

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by thrwyoilarticle on Saturday August 06, 2022 @01:18PM (#32369862)

I shouldn't have to

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by colinmhayes on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:00PM (#32372360)

Google has a billion users. Most of them don’t want the same things you want.

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