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Google's last big search update has been a complete disaster for me. Very naive and arrogant assumptions of the semantics of my search. I can't search anything more than a few words strung together. If you try to search a sentence that you don't precisely know (like a couple words are different) then you're shit out of luck now even though it used to work great.

Google is literally becoming worse at search.

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Why not give a few examples?

Google is now totally useless for any error message from popular software. I was getting an esoteric error from nginx; pasting the long error in quotes to google gave a full page of irrelevant ads with no organic results. DDG and Bing both had a forum post from Igor himself explaining the error as the first hit.

This sort of highly targeted search used to work so well in GOOG and now it doesn’t work at all and hasn’t for a while. I moved to DDG a year ago and never even seem to use !g.

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