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Google used to do keyword based search only; now, it’s a hybrid of keywords and semantics, and they seem to be upweighting the latter more and more. This can be good if you don’t care about precision (“pasta recipes” -> “penne alla vodka”), but frustrating if you know exactly what you are wanting to match.

truth. I formulate Google queries like phrases in a hypothetical document I hope exists.

100% this.

Google and the companies that litter the results page only have themselves to blame. When I was trying to find some boiler plate for pulling something from AWS parameter store I got total nonsense docs that weren't even what I wanted but it was mostly AWS docs or online tech diploma mill nonsense. Then I used chatgpt and it did 90% of the work in 20 seconds. Sometimes Google should just show me the code on GitHub but instead Google wastes my time.

But think the amount of ads (err "sponsored results") you got to see and click on!

This is by design.

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