Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story
by xnx on Saturday October 07, 2023 @01:28PM
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It's also a fair perspective to have "If Google knew what I meant, why didn't they just show me those results and save me the click?"
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Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story
by WarOnPrivacy on Saturday October 07, 2023 @01:54PM
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Because Google doesn't know that I think, it's an an unfair perspective to pretend/assume it does.
When it acts as if I'm wrong, it's wrong.
Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story
by joshuamorton on Saturday October 07, 2023 @04:41PM
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Are you open to the idea that most people disagree with you and prefer a system that does do these things?
Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story
by pharrington on Saturday October 07, 2023 @07:47PM
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In that case, have the fuzzy search be the default, and have an option to opt out of fuzzy search. The current state of Google search is always use fuzzy search - it cannot be disabled anymore. Even clicking the "No results found for X, did you mean Y" link submits a new fuzzy search query with Y.
Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story
by xnx on Saturday October 07, 2023 @11:19PM
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The name of the option is "verbatim" and you can turn it on in advanced settings.
Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story
by soraminazuki on Saturday October 07, 2023 @04:57PM
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That's what the "did you mean" links were for.
Though Google PR is brings up "relevant ads" every time they're criticized for cyberstalking, they seem to care less about relevant search results. They insist on showing me pages upon pages of links that completely disregards my search queries.