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Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by A_D_E_P_T on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:14PM (#38107697)
Recently, I searched "(-)-BPAP" -- with the quotes -- looking for the chemical benzofuranylpropylaminopentane, which is typically referred to as (-)-BPAP. EVERY result was for a BiPAP ventilator.

So I tried verbatim. It still didn't work.

Verbatim + quotation marks. Still nothing.

I guess New Google Search simply doesn't recognize the "(-)-" part of the search term. But this is characteristic of its recent performance. I can't even count the number of times Google disregarded part of my search term and gave me an inane result.

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Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by junar on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:32PM (#38107840)
Per the grandparent comment: "Young people often use full sentences today because that is what works."

Searching "BPAP chemical", "BPAP chemistry", etc. seems to work fine.

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Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by smcin on Thursday November 02, 2023 @12:44AM (#38109092)
> Google Search simply doesn't recognize the "(-)-" part of the search term.

AFAIK, Google search has always ignored parentheses and most punctuation symbols (other than ones that are special to it, like +require_term -exclude_term "...")

https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/71287971/does-go...

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