I would pay more than that for a version of Google which searches exactly for what I input like in the old days, and doesn't try to guess what I'm trying to search for with some nonsense NLP while ignoring half of my query
Do you have proof they're applying NLP?
This is their stated goal and intent for the platform.
It's also pretty obvious. These days Google ignores basic operators like quotation marks.
I meant natural language processing, is that not what they're doing?
Do an image search.
They would until someone replaced them with a free service.