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Google searches being keyword based, rather than simulated conversations?

The same reason you wouldn't put in an entire actual question/sentence, unless you either don't know how to use Google, are pissed off, or have an actual reason to suspect that it would yield proper hits (e.g. looking up an excerpt).

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Google has been optimized for sentence like questions so much that for a good 6+ years now it has been completely useless as keyword search.

To clarify: sentence search got slightly better at the cost of keyword search. So the result is unusable garbage.

It is rather hard to lose of habit of using search engine with keywords given the change took place without much fanfare. I have no problem using sentences with the current ai tools through.

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