In my experience it depends on the number of results, and the results are more accurate with verbatim.
Verbatim searches are for those easy tasks when you know literally, exactly, what you’re looking for.
Something tells me that a lot of folks on HN are being let down by Google in this area. I don’t mean it in a bad way, I want to identify these issues to help everyone. I wish the UI of search wasn’t so textually-bound.
Is there such a thing as an augmented reality search engine? You search like you do at the library, or when you lost your keys. But for data and virtual objects, they lose out - their evanescence creates a perception gap. There is no correspondence with physical objects, etc. We are getting better with haptics, however.
Rainbows End[0] is a future society I’d choose to live in, especially right about now.
Anyone have any good book recommendations?
[0] Vernor Vinge